1 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
4 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
8 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
11 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
13 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
14 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
18 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
21 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
26 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
29 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
33 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
39 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
41 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
45 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
48 it break hard links (see #188663).
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
52 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
55 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
59 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
65 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
69 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
70 debconf-mergetemplates
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
74 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
77 pod2man. Closes: #184013
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
81 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
84 * Typo, Closes: #183267
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
88 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
91 * Update debhelper(1).
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
95 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
97 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
98 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
99 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
100 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
101 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
102 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
106 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
109 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
110 the shell. Closes: #178524
111 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
115 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
118 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
122 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
125 undocumented.7 links anymore.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
129 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
131 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
132 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
133 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
134 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
135 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
140 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
143 files from installation.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
147 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
150 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
151 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
155 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
158 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
162 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
165 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
169 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
175 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
181 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
185 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
186 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
188 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
192 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
195 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
196 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
197 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
198 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
202 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
204 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
205 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
209 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
212 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
213 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
217 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
221 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
226 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
232 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
236 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
237 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
238 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
243 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
246 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
247 practice. Closes: #163303
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
251 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
257 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
264 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
266 * The "reverse hangover" release.
267 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
269 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
270 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
271 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
272 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
273 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
277 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
280 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
285 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
287 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
291 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
298 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
301 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
306 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
312 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
318 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
324 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
331 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
334 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
335 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
336 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
337 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
342 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Typo, Closes: #155323
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
348 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
355 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
358 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
359 * Removed dh_installxaw.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
363 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
366 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
367 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
368 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
369 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
370 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
374 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
377 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
379 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
384 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
386 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
387 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
391 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
394 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
395 right thing. Closes: #150644
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
399 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
406 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
408 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
413 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
416 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
417 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
422 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
428 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
431 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
435 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
438 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
439 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
444 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
447 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
451 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
457 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
460 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
461 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
465 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
471 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Removing perl warning message.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
477 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
480 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
481 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
482 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
483 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
484 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
485 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
486 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
487 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
491 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
497 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
504 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
507 debconf-mergetemplate.
508 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
509 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
513 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
516 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
517 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
518 dh_install, which ...
519 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
520 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
521 mess, as it uses debian/install.
522 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
523 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
524 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
525 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
526 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
527 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
528 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
529 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
530 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
531 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
532 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
534 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
535 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
536 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
537 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
538 course there's -X ..)
539 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
540 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
541 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
543 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
544 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
545 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
546 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
547 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
552 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
558 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Typo, Closes: #139176
561 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
565 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
571 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
577 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
583 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
589 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
592 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
593 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
594 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
595 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
597 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
598 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
602 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
608 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Typo, Closes: #132454
611 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
615 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
618 upset. Closes: #131322
620 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
622 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
625 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
626 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
627 line, as well as in debian/rules.
628 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
629 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
630 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
631 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
632 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
633 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
634 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
635 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
636 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
637 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
638 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
639 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
641 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
645 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
648 - Better indenting of generated code.
649 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
653 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
657 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
658 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
659 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
660 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
661 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
662 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
663 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
667 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
670 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
674 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
677 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
678 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
679 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
680 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
681 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
682 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
683 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
684 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
685 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
686 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
687 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
688 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
689 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
690 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
691 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
696 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
702 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
705 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
706 * fixed dh_testdir man page
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
710 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Typo, Closes: #122679
713 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
714 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
718 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
724 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
727 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
728 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
729 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
730 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
731 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
736 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
738 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
742 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
745 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
749 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
752 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
757 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Typo, Closes: #114135
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
763 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
766 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
770 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
776 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
780 Also some indentation fixes.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
784 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
787 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
788 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
789 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
790 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
791 Closes: #106514, #85520
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
795 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Typo, Closes: #104405
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
801 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
807 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
809 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
813 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
819 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
825 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
828 change it in debhelper v4..
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
832 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
838 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
841 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
845 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
848 is not essential. Closes: #100430
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
852 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
858 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
861 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
862 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
863 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
864 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
865 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
866 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
867 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
868 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
869 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
870 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
871 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
872 prefixed with ".debhelper")
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
876 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
879 look just like shared libs, but are not.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
883 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
890 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
893 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
894 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
895 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
896 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
897 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
898 program those options go to. So, for example,
899 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
900 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
901 something complex. Closes: #89311
902 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
906 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
909 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
910 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
911 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
915 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
918 through loop. Closes: #98598
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
922 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Missing semi-colon.
925 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
926 this (dh_* should be called, really).
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
930 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
933 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
934 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
935 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
939 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
942 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
943 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
947 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
950 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
954 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
957 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
958 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
962 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
965 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
966 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
967 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
971 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
974 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
975 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
976 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
980 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
983 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
987 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
993 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Typo, Closes: #92407
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
999 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1005 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1011 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1014 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1018 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1021 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1022 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1023 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1024 followed. Closes: #85483
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1028 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1030 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1031 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1032 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1036 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1039 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1040 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1041 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1042 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1043 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1044 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1045 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1046 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1047 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1048 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1049 Closes: #88464, #77743
1050 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1051 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1052 us to deal with that gracefully.
1053 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1055 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1056 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1057 a while, Closes: #51225
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1061 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1067 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1070 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1074 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1078 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1083 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1086 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1087 don't make packlist files.
1088 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1089 debhelper coding standards.
1090 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1091 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1095 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1098 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1102 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1105 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1106 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1107 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1108 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1109 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1110 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1111 but is mildly deprecated.
1112 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1113 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1114 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1115 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1116 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1117 switching to statoverrides..
1118 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1119 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1120 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1121 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1122 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1123 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1125 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1126 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1127 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1128 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1129 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1130 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1131 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1132 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1133 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1135 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1136 variable names, pod man pages).
1137 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1138 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1139 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1140 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1141 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1142 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1143 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1147 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1153 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1160 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1163 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1167 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1169 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1170 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1171 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1177 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1178 they were previously ignored.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1182 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1184 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1185 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1189 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1191 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1192 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1193 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1197 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1199 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1203 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1205 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1206 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1210 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1212 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1213 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1214 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1215 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1216 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1217 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1218 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1219 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1220 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1221 it is an obsolete program.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1225 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1227 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1231 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1235 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1237 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1241 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1243 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1245 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1247 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1251 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1257 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * typo: Closes, #78567
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1263 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1269 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1275 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1278 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1279 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1280 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1281 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1282 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1286 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1289 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1294 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1297 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1298 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1299 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1300 backwards-compatability.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1304 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1307 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1308 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1309 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1310 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1311 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1312 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1314 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1315 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1316 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1318 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1320 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1321 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1322 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1323 should now be raised to severity important..
1324 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1325 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1329 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1332 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1337 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1343 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1349 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1355 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1362 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1365 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1366 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1367 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1368 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1372 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1378 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1381 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1382 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1383 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1384 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1385 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1386 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1391 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1394 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1398 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1404 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1407 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1415 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1416 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1417 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1418 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1426 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1429 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1432 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1433 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1436 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1438 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1439 the TODO entry about it.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1443 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1450 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1453 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1454 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1458 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1461 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1462 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1463 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1464 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1468 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1481 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1484 (this appears to be logal).
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1488 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1491 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1492 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1493 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1494 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1498 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1507 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1508 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1509 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1510 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1514 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1523 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1527 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1534 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1537 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1538 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1539 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1544 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1551 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1557 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1560 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1561 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1562 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1563 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1564 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1565 notice until v2 is complete.
1566 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1567 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1568 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1569 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1570 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1571 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1573 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1574 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1575 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1576 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1580 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1586 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1593 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1596 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1600 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1607 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1610 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1611 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1612 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1613 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1621 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1622 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1623 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1628 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1631 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1632 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1636 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1639 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1643 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1646 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1650 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1657 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1660 depend on the build and install targets.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1664 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1667 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1671 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1678 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1684 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1690 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1693 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1694 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1695 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1696 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1697 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1698 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1700 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1701 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1702 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1703 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1704 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1705 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1706 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1710 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1716 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1722 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1725 right place. Closes: #55065
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1729 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1736 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1739 * Copyright date updates.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1743 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1746 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1751 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1757 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1764 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1770 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1776 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1782 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1785 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1786 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1787 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1788 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1789 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1790 bits until all files have been registered.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1794 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installmanpages:
1797 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1798 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1799 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1800 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1801 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1802 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1803 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1804 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1805 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1806 otherwise change the result at all.
1808 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1809 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1810 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1811 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1812 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1817 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1823 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1826 act on files that don't exist.
1827 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1828 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1829 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1831 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1832 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1833 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1834 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1838 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1844 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1850 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1853 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1857 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1860 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1862 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1863 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1864 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1868 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1871 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1872 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1873 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1874 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1875 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1876 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1877 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1879 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1881 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1885 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1892 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1898 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1904 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1907 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1911 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1917 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1923 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1926 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1927 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1928 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1929 I made some changes, though:
1930 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1931 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1932 that is a clear violation of policy.
1933 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1934 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1935 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1936 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1937 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1938 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1939 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1940 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1941 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1943 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1947 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1953 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1956 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1960 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1963 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1964 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1969 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1975 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1982 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1985 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1986 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1987 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1988 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1989 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1990 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1991 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1995 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2001 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2005 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2006 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2010 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2019 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2023 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2026 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2027 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2031 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2033 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2038 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2042 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2046 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2049 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2050 for the dependancies to be generated.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2054 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2057 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2061 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2064 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2065 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2066 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2071 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2074 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2075 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2079 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2085 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2091 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2094 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2098 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2104 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2107 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2108 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2109 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2110 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2111 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2112 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2113 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2114 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2115 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2116 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2117 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2118 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2122 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2125 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2126 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2128 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2129 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2130 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2131 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2132 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2133 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2135 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2136 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2140 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2143 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2147 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2154 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2157 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2162 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2165 for building debhelper.
2166 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2170 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2177 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2180 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2184 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2187 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2188 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2189 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2190 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2191 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2192 it's always available.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2196 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2199 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2200 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2201 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2205 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2208 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2209 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2213 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2219 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2222 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2226 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2232 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2235 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2236 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2237 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2241 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2244 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2249 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2252 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2253 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2255 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2256 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2260 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2266 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2272 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2275 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2279 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2282 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2283 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2285 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2289 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2292 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2293 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2294 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2298 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2301 things if CDPATH is set.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2305 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2311 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2314 seems to make sense for the transition.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2318 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2321 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2326 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2329 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2330 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2334 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2337 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2341 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2344 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2345 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2346 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2347 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2351 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2357 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2360 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2361 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2362 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2363 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2364 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2365 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2366 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2367 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2368 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2369 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2374 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2377 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2378 * README: mention doc/v2
2379 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2380 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2384 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2386 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2387 be using this script RSN.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2391 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2394 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2395 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2396 more than 1 init script.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2400 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2403 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2407 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Changed perl version detection.
2410 * Changed call to find.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2414 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2417 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2419 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2424 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Really include dh_installpam.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2430 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2433 * Wrote man page for same.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2437 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2440 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2441 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2446 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2453 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2456 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2457 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2458 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2459 x bit was being set!
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2463 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2466 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2467 well. (Closes: 38900)
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2471 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2474 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2475 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2479 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2485 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2492 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2498 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2501 help from Julian Gilbey.
2502 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2503 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2504 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2505 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2506 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2507 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2508 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2513 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2519 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2526 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2532 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2538 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2541 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2545 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2548 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2552 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2555 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2559 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2565 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2568 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2572 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2578 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2584 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2587 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2588 may be deleted. (#35845)
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2592 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Various man page enhancements.
2595 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2600 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2603 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2604 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2608 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2611 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2612 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2613 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2615 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2616 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2621 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2627 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Another very minor typo fix.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2633 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Very minor typo fix.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2639 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2642 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2643 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2647 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2653 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2656 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2657 variables properly (#34850).
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2661 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2667 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2670 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2671 (automatically generated by build process).
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2675 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2677 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2681 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2684 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2685 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2687 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2691 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2694 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2698 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * README: minor typo fix.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2704 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2707 leave it at that. :-)
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2711 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2717 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2723 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2726 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2727 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2728 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2732 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2735 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2739 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2742 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2746 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2749 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2750 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2751 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2752 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2756 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2759 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2760 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2761 Craig Small for spotting this.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2765 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2768 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2769 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2773 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2779 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2782 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2786 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2788 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2789 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2790 working on the last version of debhelper.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2794 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2797 being made. (#23255)
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2801 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2807 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2810 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2814 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2817 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2818 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2819 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2820 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2824 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2827 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2828 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2829 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2830 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2832 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2833 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2835 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2840 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2846 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2852 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2855 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2856 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2857 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2858 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2859 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2860 suidregister actually supports it.
2861 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2862 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2866 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2873 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2876 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2877 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2878 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2879 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2880 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2881 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2882 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2886 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2888 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2889 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2893 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2896 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2897 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2898 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2899 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2903 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2906 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2908 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2909 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2910 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2911 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2912 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2913 effect, either. (#30118)
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2917 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2923 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2926 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2927 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2931 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2937 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2940 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2941 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2942 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2943 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2947 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2950 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2951 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2955 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2961 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2964 packages, painlessly.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2968 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2974 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2980 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2986 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * The perl conversion is complete.
2990 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2992 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2993 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2994 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2999 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3002 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3003 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3004 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3008 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3011 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3013 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3015 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3016 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3020 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3023 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3024 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3028 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3034 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3037 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3038 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3039 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3040 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3041 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3045 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3048 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3049 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3050 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3051 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3055 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3058 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3062 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3065 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3066 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3067 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3068 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3069 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3070 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3071 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3072 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3076 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3082 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3085 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3086 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3087 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3092 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3095 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3099 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3102 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3106 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3109 sections of shared libraries.
3110 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3111 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3112 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3113 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3114 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3115 things you don't want them to.
3116 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3117 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3121 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3124 shared libraries. (#26414)
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3128 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3130 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3131 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3132 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3133 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3137 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3141 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3143 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3144 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3145 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3146 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3147 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3151 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3154 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3158 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3161 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3162 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3167 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3170 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3174 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3177 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3178 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3179 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3180 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3181 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3183 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3184 remove debian/files properly.
3185 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3186 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3187 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3188 * Removed bogus menu file.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3192 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3195 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3199 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3202 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3203 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3204 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3205 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3206 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3207 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3211 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3214 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3215 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3216 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3217 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3221 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3228 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3231 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3232 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3234 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3235 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3236 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3237 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3238 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3239 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3243 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3246 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3247 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3248 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3249 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3250 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3251 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3252 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3253 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3254 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3255 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3256 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3257 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3258 passed any switches.
3259 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3263 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3266 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3267 at all for a long while.
3268 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3269 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3270 large chunks in the process.
3271 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3272 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3273 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3278 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3281 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3283 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3288 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3291 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3292 that don't always have the same files in them.
3293 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3294 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3295 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3299 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3303 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3304 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3305 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3306 updating 27 man pages.
3307 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3308 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3309 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3310 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3311 programs act on. (#25247)
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3315 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3319 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3320 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3321 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3322 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3323 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3324 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3329 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3336 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3343 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3346 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3350 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3356 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3359 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3360 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3361 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3362 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3363 package by accident.
3364 * Is version 1.0 next?
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3368 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3371 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3372 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3376 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3379 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3380 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3381 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3382 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3383 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3385 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3390 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3393 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3394 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3398 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3401 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3405 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3408 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3409 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3414 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3420 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3423 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3424 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3429 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3435 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3438 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3439 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3440 past week. Thanks, guys!
3442 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3443 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3444 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3445 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3446 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3447 would do in the same situation.
3448 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3449 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3451 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3453 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3454 permissions changed.
3455 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3456 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3457 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3458 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3459 files are treated identically.
3460 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3461 * Minor man page fixes.
3462 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3463 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3464 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3468 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3471 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3472 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3473 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3474 use -X multiple times, too.
3475 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3476 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3480 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3483 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3484 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3488 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3491 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3495 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3498 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3499 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3500 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3501 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3502 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3503 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3504 shape if you're starting a new package.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3508 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3511 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3515 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3518 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3519 because of missing symlinks.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3523 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3529 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3532 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3533 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3534 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3535 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3536 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3538 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3539 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3543 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3545 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3546 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3547 to be changed after the fact :-)
3548 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3552 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3555 no version string after the -V.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3559 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3561 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3562 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3567 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3570 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3574 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3577 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3578 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3579 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3580 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3581 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3582 I always welcome corrections!
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3586 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3592 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3595 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3596 * Documented this new switch.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3600 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3603 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3604 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3605 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3606 no packages use the old behavior.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3610 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3613 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3614 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3618 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3621 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3625 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3631 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3634 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3638 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3641 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3642 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3643 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3647 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3653 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3656 into the source package by accident.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3660 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3663 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3664 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3665 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3666 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3667 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3668 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3673 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3677 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3678 inspired to implement some of it.
3679 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3683 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3686 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3690 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3693 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3694 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3698 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3701 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3702 have done.) (#17598)
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3706 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3712 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3718 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3721 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3725 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3728 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3729 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3733 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3736 argument processor in perl.
3737 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3738 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3739 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3740 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3744 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3747 type directories. (#16933)
3748 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3749 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3750 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3751 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3752 are supported. (#16935)
3753 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3758 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3761 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3765 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3769 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3770 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3771 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3772 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3773 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3774 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3778 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3781 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3782 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3784 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3785 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3786 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3787 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3788 a given package, or -i or -a.
3789 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3790 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3791 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3792 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3793 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3794 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3795 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3796 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3797 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3799 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3800 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3801 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3805 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3808 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3809 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3814 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3817 does not have a section.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3821 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3824 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3825 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3826 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3830 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Fixed typo #16215.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3836 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3839 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3840 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3841 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3842 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3843 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3848 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3851 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3852 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3853 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3858 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3864 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3870 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3873 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3874 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3875 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3876 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3877 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3878 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3882 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3888 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3891 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3895 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3898 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3899 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3900 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3904 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3907 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3911 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3917 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3920 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3924 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3927 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3931 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3937 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3940 postinst, postrm, etc.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3944 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3950 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3953 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3954 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3955 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3956 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3957 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3961 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3964 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3965 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3969 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3972 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3976 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3979 installing package files into.
3980 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3985 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3989 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3993 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3999 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4002 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4006 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4009 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4010 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4011 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4012 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4016 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4018 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4019 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4020 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4021 multiple binary packages.
4022 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4023 should rebuild them with this version.
4024 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4028 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4031 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4035 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4038 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4042 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4045 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4046 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4047 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4048 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4049 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4050 debian/README.debian.
4051 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4052 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4053 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4054 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4055 in a few situations.)
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4059 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4065 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4071 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4074 * Fixed several man pages.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4078 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4081 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4082 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4086 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4089 is ready for general use.
4090 * Added man pages for all commands.
4091 * Multiple binary package support.
4092 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4093 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4094 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4096 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4097 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4098 auto-installed as parameters.
4099 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4101 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4104 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4105 the package build directory it is to act on.
4106 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4107 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4108 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4112 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4114 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4115 ready to replace debstd.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400