1 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
4 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
5 practice. Closes: #163303
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
9 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
15 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
22 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
24 * The "reverse hangover" release.
25 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
27 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
28 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
29 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
30 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
31 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
35 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
38 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
43 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
49 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
56 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
59 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
64 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
70 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
76 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
82 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
89 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
92 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
93 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
94 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
95 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
100 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Typo, Closes: #155323
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
106 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
113 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
116 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
117 * Removed dh_installxaw.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
121 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
124 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
125 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
126 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
127 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
128 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
132 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
135 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
137 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
142 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
144 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
145 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
149 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
152 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
153 right thing. Closes: #150644
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
157 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
164 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
166 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
171 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
174 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
175 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
180 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
186 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
189 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
193 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
196 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
197 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
202 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
205 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
209 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
215 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
218 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
219 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
223 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
229 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Removing perl warning message.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
235 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
238 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
239 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
240 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
241 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
242 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
243 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
244 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
245 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
249 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
255 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
262 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
265 debconf-mergetemplate.
266 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
267 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
271 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
274 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
275 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
276 dh_install, which ...
277 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
278 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
279 mess, as it uses debian/install.
280 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
281 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
282 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
283 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
284 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
285 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
286 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
287 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
288 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
289 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
290 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
292 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
293 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
294 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
295 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
296 course there's -X ..)
297 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
298 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
299 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
301 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
302 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
303 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
304 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
305 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
310 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
316 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Typo, Closes: #139176
319 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
323 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
329 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
335 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
341 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
347 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
350 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
351 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
352 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
353 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
355 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
356 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
360 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
366 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Typo, Closes: #132454
369 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
373 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
376 upset. Closes: #131322
378 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
380 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
383 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
384 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
385 line, as well as in debian/rules.
386 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
387 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
388 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
389 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
390 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
391 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
392 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
393 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
394 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
395 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
396 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
397 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
399 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
403 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
406 - Better indenting of generated code.
407 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
411 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
415 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
416 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
417 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
418 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
419 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
420 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
421 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
425 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
427 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
428 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
432 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
435 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
436 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
437 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
438 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
439 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
440 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
441 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
442 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
443 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
444 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
445 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
446 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
447 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
448 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
449 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
454 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
460 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
463 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
464 * fixed dh_testdir man page
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
468 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Typo, Closes: #122679
471 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
472 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
476 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
482 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
485 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
486 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
487 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
488 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
489 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
494 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
496 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
500 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
503 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
507 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
510 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
515 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Typo, Closes: #114135
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
521 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
524 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
528 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
534 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
538 Also some indentation fixes.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
542 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
545 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
546 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
547 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
548 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
549 Closes: #106514, #85520
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
553 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Typo, Closes: #104405
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
559 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
565 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
567 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
571 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
577 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
583 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
586 change it in debhelper v4..
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
590 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
596 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
599 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
603 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
606 is not essential. Closes: #100430
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
610 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
616 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
619 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
620 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
621 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
622 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
623 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
624 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
625 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
626 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
627 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
628 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
629 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
630 prefixed with ".debhelper")
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
634 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
637 look just like shared libs, but are not.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
641 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
648 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
651 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
652 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
653 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
654 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
655 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
656 program those options go to. So, for example,
657 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
658 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
659 something complex. Closes: #89311
660 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
664 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
667 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
668 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
669 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
673 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
676 through loop. Closes: #98598
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
680 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Missing semi-colon.
683 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
684 this (dh_* should be called, really).
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
688 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
691 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
692 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
693 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
697 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
700 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
701 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
705 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
708 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
712 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
715 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
716 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
720 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
723 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
724 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
725 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
729 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
732 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
733 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
734 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
738 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
741 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
745 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
751 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Typo, Closes: #92407
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
757 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
763 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
769 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
772 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
776 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
779 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
780 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
781 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
782 followed. Closes: #85483
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
786 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
788 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
789 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
790 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
794 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
797 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
798 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
799 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
800 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
801 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
802 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
803 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
804 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
805 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
806 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
807 Closes: #88464, #77743
808 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
809 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
810 us to deal with that gracefully.
811 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
813 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
814 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
815 a while, Closes: #51225
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
819 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
825 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
828 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
832 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
836 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
841 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
844 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
845 don't make packlist files.
846 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
847 debhelper coding standards.
848 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
849 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
853 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
856 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
860 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
863 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
864 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
865 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
866 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
867 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
868 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
869 but is mildly deprecated.
870 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
871 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
872 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
873 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
874 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
875 switching to statoverrides..
876 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
877 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
878 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
879 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
880 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
881 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
883 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
884 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
885 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
886 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
887 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
888 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
889 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
890 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
891 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
893 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
894 variable names, pod man pages).
895 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
896 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
897 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
898 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
899 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
900 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
901 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
905 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
911 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
918 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
921 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
925 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
927 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
928 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
929 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
933 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
935 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
936 they were previously ignored.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
940 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
942 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
943 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
947 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
949 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
950 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
951 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
955 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
957 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
961 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
963 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
964 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
968 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
970 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
971 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
972 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
973 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
974 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
975 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
976 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
977 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
978 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
979 it is an obsolete program.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
983 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
985 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
989 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
993 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
995 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
999 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1001 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1003 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1005 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1009 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1015 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * typo: Closes, #78567
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1021 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1027 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1033 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1036 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1037 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1038 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1039 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1040 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1044 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1047 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1052 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1055 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1056 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1057 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1058 backwards-compatability.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1062 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1065 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1066 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1067 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1068 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1069 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1070 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1072 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1073 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1074 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1076 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1078 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1079 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1080 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1081 should now be raised to severity important..
1082 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1083 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1087 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1090 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1095 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1101 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1107 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1113 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1120 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1123 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1124 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1125 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1126 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1130 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1136 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1139 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1140 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1141 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1142 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1143 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1144 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1149 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1152 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1156 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1162 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1165 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1170 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1173 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1174 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1175 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1176 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1180 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1184 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1187 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1190 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1191 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1194 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1196 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1197 the TODO entry about it.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1201 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1208 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1211 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1212 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1219 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1220 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1221 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1222 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1226 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1242 (this appears to be logal).
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1246 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1249 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1250 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1251 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1252 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1256 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1262 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1265 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1266 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1267 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1268 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1272 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1278 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1281 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1285 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1292 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1295 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1296 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1297 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1315 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1318 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1319 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1320 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1321 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1322 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1323 notice until v2 is complete.
1324 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1325 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1326 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1327 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1328 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1329 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1331 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1332 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1333 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1334 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1338 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1351 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1354 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1358 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1368 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1369 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1370 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1371 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1376 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1379 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1380 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1381 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1386 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1389 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1390 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1397 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1401 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1404 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1408 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1415 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1418 depend on the build and install targets.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1425 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1429 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1442 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1448 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1451 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1452 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1453 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1454 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1455 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1456 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1458 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1459 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1460 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1461 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1462 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1463 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1464 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1468 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1474 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1480 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1483 right place. Closes: #55065
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1487 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1494 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1497 * Copyright date updates.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1501 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1504 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1509 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1515 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1522 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1528 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1534 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1540 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1543 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1544 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1545 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1546 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1547 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1548 bits until all files have been registered.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1552 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installmanpages:
1555 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1556 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1557 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1558 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1559 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1560 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1561 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1562 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1563 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1564 otherwise change the result at all.
1566 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1567 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1568 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1569 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1570 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1575 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1581 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1584 act on files that don't exist.
1585 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1586 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1587 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1589 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1590 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1591 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1592 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1596 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1602 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1608 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1611 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1615 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1618 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1620 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1621 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1622 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1626 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1629 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1630 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1631 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1632 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1633 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1634 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1635 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1637 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1639 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1643 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1650 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1656 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1662 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1665 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1669 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1675 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1681 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1684 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1685 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1686 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1687 I made some changes, though:
1688 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1689 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1690 that is a clear violation of policy.
1691 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1692 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1693 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1694 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1695 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1696 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1697 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1698 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1699 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1701 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1705 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1711 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1714 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1718 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1721 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1722 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1727 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1733 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1740 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1743 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1744 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1745 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1746 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1747 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1748 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1749 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1753 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1759 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1763 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1764 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1768 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1774 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1777 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1781 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1784 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1785 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1789 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1791 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1796 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1800 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1804 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1807 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1808 for the dependancies to be generated.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1812 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1815 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1819 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1822 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1823 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1824 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1832 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1833 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1837 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1843 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1849 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1852 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1856 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1862 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1865 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1866 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1867 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1868 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1869 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1870 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1871 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1872 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1873 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1874 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1875 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1876 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1880 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1883 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1884 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1886 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1887 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1888 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1889 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1890 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1891 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1893 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1894 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1898 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1901 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1905 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1912 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1915 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1920 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1923 for building debhelper.
1924 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1928 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1935 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1938 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1942 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1945 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1946 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1947 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1948 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1949 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1950 it's always available.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1954 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1957 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1958 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1959 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1963 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1966 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1967 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1971 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1977 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1980 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1984 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1990 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1993 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1994 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1995 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1999 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2002 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2007 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2010 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2011 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2013 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2014 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2018 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2024 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2030 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2033 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2037 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2040 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2041 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2043 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2047 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2050 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2051 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2052 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2056 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2059 things if CDPATH is set.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2063 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2069 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2072 seems to make sense for the transition.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2076 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2079 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2084 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2087 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2088 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2092 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2095 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2099 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2102 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2103 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2104 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2105 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2109 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2115 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2118 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2119 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2120 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2121 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2122 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2123 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2124 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2125 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2126 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2127 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2132 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2135 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2136 * README: mention doc/v2
2137 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2138 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2142 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2144 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2145 be using this script RSN.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2149 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2152 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2153 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2154 more than 1 init script.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2158 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2161 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2165 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Changed perl version detection.
2168 * Changed call to find.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2172 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2175 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2177 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2182 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Really include dh_installpam.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2188 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2191 * Wrote man page for same.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2195 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2198 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2199 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2204 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2211 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2214 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2215 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2216 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2217 x bit was being set!
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2221 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2224 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2225 well. (Closes: 38900)
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2232 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2233 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2237 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2243 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2250 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2256 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2259 help from Julian Gilbey.
2260 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2261 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2262 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2263 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2264 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2265 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2266 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2271 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2277 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2284 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2290 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2296 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2299 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2303 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2306 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2310 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2313 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2317 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2323 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2326 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2330 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2336 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2342 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2345 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2346 may be deleted. (#35845)
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2350 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Various man page enhancements.
2353 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2358 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2361 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2362 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2366 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2369 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2370 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2371 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2373 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2374 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2379 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2385 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Another very minor typo fix.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2391 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Very minor typo fix.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2397 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2400 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2401 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2405 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2411 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2414 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2415 variables properly (#34850).
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2419 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2425 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2428 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2429 (automatically generated by build process).
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2433 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2435 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2439 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2442 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2443 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2445 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2449 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2452 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2456 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * README: minor typo fix.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2462 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2465 leave it at that. :-)
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2469 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2475 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2481 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2484 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2485 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2486 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2490 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2493 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2497 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2500 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2504 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2507 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2508 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2509 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2510 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2514 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2517 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2518 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2519 Craig Small for spotting this.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2523 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2526 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2527 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2531 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2537 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2540 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2544 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2546 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2547 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2548 working on the last version of debhelper.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2552 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2555 being made. (#23255)
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2559 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2565 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2568 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2572 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2575 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2576 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2577 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2578 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2582 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2585 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2586 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2587 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2588 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2590 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2591 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2593 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2598 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2604 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2610 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2613 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2614 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2615 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2616 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2617 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2618 suidregister actually supports it.
2619 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2620 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2624 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2631 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2634 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2635 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2636 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2637 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2638 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2639 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2640 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2644 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2646 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2647 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2651 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2654 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2655 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2656 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2657 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2661 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2664 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2666 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2667 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2668 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2669 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2670 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2671 effect, either. (#30118)
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2675 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2681 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2684 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2685 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2689 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2695 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2698 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2699 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2700 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2701 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2705 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2708 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2709 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2713 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2719 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2722 packages, painlessly.
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2726 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2732 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2738 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2744 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * The perl conversion is complete.
2748 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2750 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2751 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2752 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2757 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2760 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2761 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2762 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2766 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2769 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2771 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2773 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2774 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2778 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2781 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2782 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2786 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2792 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2795 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2796 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2797 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2798 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2799 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2803 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2806 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2807 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2808 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2809 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2813 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2816 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2820 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2823 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2824 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2825 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2826 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2827 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2828 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2829 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2830 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2834 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2840 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2843 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2844 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2845 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2850 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2853 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2857 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2860 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2864 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2867 sections of shared libraries.
2868 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2869 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2870 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2871 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2872 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2873 things you don't want them to.
2874 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2875 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2879 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2882 shared libraries. (#26414)
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2886 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2888 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2889 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2890 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2891 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2895 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2899 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2901 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2902 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2903 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2904 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2905 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2909 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2912 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2916 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2919 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2920 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2925 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2928 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2932 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2935 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2936 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2937 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2938 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2939 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2941 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2942 remove debian/files properly.
2943 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2944 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2945 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2946 * Removed bogus menu file.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2950 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2953 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2957 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2960 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2961 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2962 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2963 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2964 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2965 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2969 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2972 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2973 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2974 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2975 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2979 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2986 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2989 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2990 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2992 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2993 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2994 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2995 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2996 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2997 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3001 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3004 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3005 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3006 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3007 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3008 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3009 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3010 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3011 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3012 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3013 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3014 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3015 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3016 passed any switches.
3017 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3021 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3024 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3025 at all for a long while.
3026 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3027 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3028 large chunks in the process.
3029 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3030 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3031 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3036 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3039 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3041 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3046 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3049 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3050 that don't always have the same files in them.
3051 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3052 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3053 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3057 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3061 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3062 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3063 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3064 updating 27 man pages.
3065 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3066 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3067 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3068 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3069 programs act on. (#25247)
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3073 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3077 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3078 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3079 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3080 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3081 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3082 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3087 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3094 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3101 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3104 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3108 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3114 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3117 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3118 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3119 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3120 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3121 package by accident.
3122 * Is version 1.0 next?
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3126 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3129 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3130 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3134 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3137 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3138 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3139 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3140 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3141 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3143 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3148 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3151 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3152 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3156 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3159 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3163 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3166 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3167 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3172 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3178 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3181 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3182 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3187 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3193 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3196 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3197 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3198 past week. Thanks, guys!
3200 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3201 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3202 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3203 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3204 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3205 would do in the same situation.
3206 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3207 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3209 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3211 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3212 permissions changed.
3213 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3214 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3215 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3216 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3217 files are treated identically.
3218 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3219 * Minor man page fixes.
3220 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3221 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3222 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3226 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3229 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3230 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3231 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3232 use -X multiple times, too.
3233 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3234 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3238 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3241 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3242 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3246 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3249 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3253 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3256 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3257 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3258 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3259 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3260 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3261 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3262 shape if you're starting a new package.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3266 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3269 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3273 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3276 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3277 because of missing symlinks.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3281 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3287 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3290 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3291 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3292 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3293 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3294 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3296 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3297 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3301 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3303 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3304 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3305 to be changed after the fact :-)
3306 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3310 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3313 no version string after the -V.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3317 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3319 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3320 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3325 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3328 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3332 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3335 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3336 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3337 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3338 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3339 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3340 I always welcome corrections!
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3344 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3350 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3353 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3354 * Documented this new switch.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3358 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3361 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3362 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3363 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3364 no packages use the old behavior.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3368 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3371 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3372 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3376 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3379 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3383 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3389 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3392 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3396 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3399 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3400 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3401 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3405 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3411 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3414 into the source package by accident.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3418 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3421 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3422 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3423 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3424 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3425 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3426 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3431 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3435 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3436 inspired to implement some of it.
3437 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3441 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3444 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3448 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3451 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3452 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3456 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3459 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3460 have done.) (#17598)
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3464 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3470 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3476 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3479 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3483 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3486 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3487 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3491 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3494 argument processor in perl.
3495 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3496 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3497 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3498 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3502 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3505 type directories. (#16933)
3506 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3507 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3508 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3509 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3510 are supported. (#16935)
3511 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3516 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3519 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3523 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3527 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3528 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3529 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3530 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3531 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3532 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3536 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3539 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3540 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3542 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3543 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3544 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3545 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3546 a given package, or -i or -a.
3547 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3548 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3549 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3550 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3551 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3552 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3553 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3554 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3555 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3557 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3558 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3559 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3563 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3566 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3567 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3572 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3575 does not have a section.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3579 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3582 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3583 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3584 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3588 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Fixed typo #16215.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3594 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3597 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3598 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3599 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3600 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3601 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3606 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3609 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3610 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3611 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3616 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3622 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3628 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3631 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3632 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3633 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3634 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3635 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3636 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3640 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3646 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3649 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3653 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3656 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3657 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3658 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3662 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3665 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3669 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3675 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3678 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3682 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3685 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3689 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3695 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3698 postinst, postrm, etc.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3702 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3708 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3711 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3712 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3713 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3714 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3715 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3719 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3722 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3723 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3727 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3730 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3734 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3737 installing package files into.
3738 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3743 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3747 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3751 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3757 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3760 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3764 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3767 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3768 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3769 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3770 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3774 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3776 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3777 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3778 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3779 multiple binary packages.
3780 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3781 should rebuild them with this version.
3782 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3786 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3789 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3793 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3796 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3800 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3803 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3804 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3805 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3806 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3807 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3808 debian/README.debian.
3809 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3810 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3811 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3812 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3813 in a few situations.)
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3817 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3823 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3829 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3832 * Fixed several man pages.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3836 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3839 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3840 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3844 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3847 is ready for general use.
3848 * Added man pages for all commands.
3849 * Multiple binary package support.
3850 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3851 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3852 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3854 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3855 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3856 auto-installed as parameters.
3857 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3859 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3862 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3863 the package build directory it is to act on.
3864 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3865 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3866 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3870 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3872 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3873 ready to replace debstd.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400