1 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
7 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
10 it break hard links (see #188663).
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
14 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
17 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
21 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
27 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
31 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
32 debconf-mergetemplates
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
36 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
39 pod2man. Closes: #184013
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
43 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
46 * Typo, Closes: #183267
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
50 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
53 * Update debhelper(1).
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
57 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
59 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
60 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
61 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
62 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
63 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
64 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
68 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
71 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
72 the shell. Closes: #178524
73 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
77 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
80 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
84 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
87 undocumented.7 links anymore.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
91 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
93 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
94 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
95 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
96 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
97 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
102 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
105 files from installation.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
109 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
112 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
113 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
117 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
120 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
124 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
127 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
131 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
137 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
143 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
147 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
148 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
150 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
154 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
157 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
158 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
159 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
160 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
164 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
166 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
167 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
171 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
174 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
175 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
179 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
183 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
188 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
194 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
198 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
199 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
200 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
205 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
208 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
209 practice. Closes: #163303
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
213 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
219 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
226 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
228 * The "reverse hangover" release.
229 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
231 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
232 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
233 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
234 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
235 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
239 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
242 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
247 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
253 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
260 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
263 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
268 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
274 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
280 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
286 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
293 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
296 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
297 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
298 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
299 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
304 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Typo, Closes: #155323
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
310 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
317 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
320 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
321 * Removed dh_installxaw.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
325 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
328 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
329 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
330 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
331 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
332 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
336 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
339 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
341 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
346 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
348 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
349 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
353 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
356 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
357 right thing. Closes: #150644
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
361 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
368 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
370 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
375 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
378 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
379 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
384 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
390 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
393 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
397 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
400 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
401 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
406 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
409 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
413 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
419 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
422 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
423 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
427 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
433 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Removing perl warning message.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
439 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
442 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
443 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
444 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
445 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
446 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
447 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
448 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
449 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
453 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
459 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
466 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
469 debconf-mergetemplate.
470 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
471 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
475 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
478 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
479 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
480 dh_install, which ...
481 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
482 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
483 mess, as it uses debian/install.
484 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
485 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
486 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
487 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
488 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
489 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
490 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
491 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
492 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
493 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
494 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
496 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
497 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
498 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
499 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
500 course there's -X ..)
501 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
502 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
503 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
505 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
506 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
507 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
508 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
509 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
514 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
520 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Typo, Closes: #139176
523 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
527 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
533 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
539 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
545 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
551 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
554 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
555 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
556 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
557 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
559 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
560 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
564 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
570 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Typo, Closes: #132454
573 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
577 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
580 upset. Closes: #131322
582 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
584 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
587 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
588 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
589 line, as well as in debian/rules.
590 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
591 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
592 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
593 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
594 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
595 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
596 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
597 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
598 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
599 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
600 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
601 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
603 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
607 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
610 - Better indenting of generated code.
611 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
615 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
619 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
620 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
621 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
622 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
623 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
624 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
625 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
629 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
632 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
636 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
639 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
640 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
641 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
642 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
643 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
644 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
645 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
646 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
647 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
648 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
649 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
650 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
651 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
652 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
653 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
658 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
664 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
667 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
668 * fixed dh_testdir man page
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
672 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Typo, Closes: #122679
675 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
676 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
680 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
686 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
689 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
690 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
691 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
692 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
693 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
698 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
700 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
704 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
707 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
711 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
714 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
719 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Typo, Closes: #114135
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
725 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
728 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
732 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
738 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
742 Also some indentation fixes.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
746 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
749 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
750 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
751 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
752 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
753 Closes: #106514, #85520
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
757 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Typo, Closes: #104405
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
763 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
769 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
771 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
775 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
781 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
787 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
790 change it in debhelper v4..
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
794 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
800 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
803 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
807 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
810 is not essential. Closes: #100430
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
814 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
820 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
822 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
823 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
824 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
825 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
826 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
827 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
828 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
829 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
830 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
831 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
832 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
833 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
834 prefixed with ".debhelper")
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
838 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
841 look just like shared libs, but are not.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
845 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
852 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
855 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
856 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
857 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
858 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
859 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
860 program those options go to. So, for example,
861 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
862 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
863 something complex. Closes: #89311
864 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
868 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
871 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
872 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
873 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
877 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
880 through loop. Closes: #98598
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
884 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Missing semi-colon.
887 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
888 this (dh_* should be called, really).
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
892 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
895 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
896 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
897 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
901 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
904 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
905 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
909 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
912 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
916 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
919 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
920 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
924 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
927 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
928 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
929 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
933 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
936 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
937 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
938 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
942 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
945 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
949 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
955 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Typo, Closes: #92407
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
961 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
967 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
973 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
976 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
980 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
983 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
984 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
985 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
986 followed. Closes: #85483
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
990 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
992 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
993 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
994 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
998 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1001 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1002 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1003 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1004 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1005 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1006 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1007 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1008 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1009 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1010 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1011 Closes: #88464, #77743
1012 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1013 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1014 us to deal with that gracefully.
1015 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1017 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1018 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1019 a while, Closes: #51225
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1023 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1029 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1032 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1036 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1040 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1045 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1048 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1049 don't make packlist files.
1050 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1051 debhelper coding standards.
1052 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1053 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1057 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1060 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1064 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1067 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1068 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1069 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1070 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1071 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1072 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1073 but is mildly deprecated.
1074 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1075 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1076 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1077 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1078 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1079 switching to statoverrides..
1080 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1081 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1082 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1083 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1084 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1085 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1087 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1088 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1089 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1090 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1091 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1092 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1093 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1094 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1095 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1097 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1098 variable names, pod man pages).
1099 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1100 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1101 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1102 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1103 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1104 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1105 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1109 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1115 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1122 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1125 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1129 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1131 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1132 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1133 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1137 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1139 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1140 they were previously ignored.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1144 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1146 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1147 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1151 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1153 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1154 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1155 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1159 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1161 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1165 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1167 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1168 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1172 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1174 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1175 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1176 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1177 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1178 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1179 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1180 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1181 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1182 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1183 it is an obsolete program.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1187 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1189 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1193 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1197 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1199 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1203 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1205 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1207 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1209 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1213 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1219 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * typo: Closes, #78567
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1225 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1231 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1237 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1240 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1241 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1242 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1243 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1244 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1248 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1251 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1256 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1259 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1260 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1261 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1262 backwards-compatability.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1266 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1269 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1270 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1271 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1272 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1273 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1274 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1276 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1277 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1278 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1280 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1282 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1283 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1284 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1285 should now be raised to severity important..
1286 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1287 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1291 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1294 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1299 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1305 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1311 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1317 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1324 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1327 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1328 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1329 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1330 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1334 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1340 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1343 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1344 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1345 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1346 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1347 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1348 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1353 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1356 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1360 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1366 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1369 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1374 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1377 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1378 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1379 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1380 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1384 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1388 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1391 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1394 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1395 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1398 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1400 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1401 the TODO entry about it.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1405 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1415 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1416 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1420 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1423 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1424 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1425 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1426 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1430 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1443 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1446 (this appears to be logal).
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1450 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1453 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1454 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1455 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1456 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1460 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1469 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1470 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1471 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1472 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1476 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1482 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1485 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1499 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1500 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1501 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1506 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1519 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1522 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1523 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1524 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1525 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1526 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1527 notice until v2 is complete.
1528 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1529 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1530 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1531 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1532 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1533 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1535 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1536 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1537 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1538 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1542 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1555 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1558 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1562 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1569 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1572 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1573 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1574 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1575 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1580 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1583 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1584 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1585 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1590 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1593 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1594 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1598 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1601 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1605 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1608 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1612 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1619 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1622 depend on the build and install targets.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1626 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1629 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1640 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1646 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1652 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1655 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1656 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1657 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1658 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1659 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1660 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1662 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1663 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1664 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1665 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1666 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1667 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1668 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1672 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1678 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1684 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1687 right place. Closes: #55065
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1691 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1698 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1701 * Copyright date updates.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1705 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1708 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1713 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1719 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1726 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1732 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1738 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1744 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1747 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1748 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1749 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1750 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1751 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1752 bits until all files have been registered.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1756 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installmanpages:
1759 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1760 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1761 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1762 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1763 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1764 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1765 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1766 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1767 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1768 otherwise change the result at all.
1770 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1771 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1772 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1773 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1774 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1779 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1785 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1788 act on files that don't exist.
1789 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1790 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1791 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1793 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1794 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1795 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1796 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1800 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1806 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1812 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1815 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1819 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1822 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1824 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1825 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1826 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1830 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1833 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1834 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1835 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1836 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1837 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1838 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1839 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1841 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1843 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1847 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1854 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1860 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1866 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1869 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1873 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1879 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1885 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1888 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1889 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1890 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1891 I made some changes, though:
1892 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1893 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1894 that is a clear violation of policy.
1895 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1896 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1897 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1898 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1899 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1900 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1901 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1902 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1903 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1905 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1909 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1915 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1918 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1922 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1925 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1926 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1931 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1937 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1944 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1947 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1948 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1949 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1950 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1951 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1952 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1953 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1957 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1963 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1967 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1968 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1972 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1978 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1981 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1985 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1988 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1989 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1993 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1995 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2000 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2004 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2008 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2011 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2012 for the dependancies to be generated.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2019 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2023 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2026 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2027 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2028 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2033 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2036 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2037 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2041 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2047 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2053 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2056 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2060 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2066 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2069 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2070 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2071 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2072 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2073 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2074 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2075 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2076 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2077 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2078 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2079 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2080 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2084 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2087 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2088 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2090 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2091 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2092 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2093 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2094 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2095 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2097 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2098 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2102 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2105 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2109 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2116 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2119 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2124 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2127 for building debhelper.
2128 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2132 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2139 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2142 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2146 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2149 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2150 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2151 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2152 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2153 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2154 it's always available.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2158 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2161 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2162 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2163 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2167 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2170 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2171 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2175 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2181 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2184 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2188 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2194 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2197 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2198 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2199 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2203 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2206 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2211 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2214 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2215 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2217 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2218 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2222 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2228 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2234 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2237 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2241 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2244 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2245 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2247 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2251 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2254 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2255 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2256 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2260 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2263 things if CDPATH is set.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2267 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2273 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2276 seems to make sense for the transition.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2280 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2283 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2288 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2291 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2292 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2296 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2299 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2303 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2306 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2307 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2308 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2309 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2313 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2319 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2322 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2323 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2324 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2325 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2326 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2327 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2328 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2329 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2330 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2331 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2336 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2339 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2340 * README: mention doc/v2
2341 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2342 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2346 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2348 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2349 be using this script RSN.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2353 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2356 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2357 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2358 more than 1 init script.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2362 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2365 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2369 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Changed perl version detection.
2372 * Changed call to find.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2376 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2379 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2381 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2386 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Really include dh_installpam.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2392 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2395 * Wrote man page for same.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2399 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2402 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2403 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2408 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2415 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2418 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2419 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2420 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2421 x bit was being set!
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2425 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2428 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2429 well. (Closes: 38900)
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2433 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2436 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2437 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2441 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2447 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2454 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2460 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2463 help from Julian Gilbey.
2464 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2465 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2466 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2467 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2468 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2469 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2470 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2475 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2481 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2488 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2494 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2500 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2503 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2507 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2510 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2514 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2517 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2521 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2527 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2530 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2534 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2540 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2546 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2549 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2550 may be deleted. (#35845)
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2554 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Various man page enhancements.
2557 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2562 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2565 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2566 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2570 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2573 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2574 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2575 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2577 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2578 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2583 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2589 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Another very minor typo fix.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2595 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Very minor typo fix.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2601 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2604 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2605 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2609 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2615 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2618 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2619 variables properly (#34850).
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2623 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2629 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2632 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2633 (automatically generated by build process).
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2637 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2639 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2643 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2646 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2647 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2649 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2653 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2656 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2660 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * README: minor typo fix.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2666 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2669 leave it at that. :-)
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2673 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2679 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2685 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2688 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2689 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2690 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2694 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2697 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2701 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2704 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2708 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2711 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2712 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2713 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2714 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2718 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2721 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2722 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2723 Craig Small for spotting this.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2727 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2730 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2731 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2735 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2741 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2744 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2748 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2750 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2751 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2752 working on the last version of debhelper.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2756 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2759 being made. (#23255)
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2763 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2769 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2772 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2776 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2779 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2780 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2781 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2782 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2786 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2789 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2790 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2791 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2792 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2794 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2795 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2797 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2802 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2808 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2814 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2817 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2818 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2819 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2820 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2821 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2822 suidregister actually supports it.
2823 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2824 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2828 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2835 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2838 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2839 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2840 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2841 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2842 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2843 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2844 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2848 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2850 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2851 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2855 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2858 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2859 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2860 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2861 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2865 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2868 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2870 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2871 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2872 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2873 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2874 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2875 effect, either. (#30118)
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2879 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2885 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2888 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2889 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2893 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2899 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2902 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2903 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2904 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2905 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2909 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2912 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2913 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2917 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2923 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2926 packages, painlessly.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2930 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2936 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2942 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2948 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * The perl conversion is complete.
2952 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2954 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2955 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2956 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2961 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2964 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2965 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2966 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2970 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2973 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2975 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2977 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2978 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2982 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2985 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2986 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2990 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2996 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2999 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3000 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3001 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3002 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3003 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3007 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3010 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3011 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3012 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3013 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3017 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3020 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3024 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3027 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3028 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3029 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3030 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3031 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3032 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3033 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3034 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3038 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3044 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3047 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3048 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3049 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3054 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3057 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3061 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3064 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3068 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3071 sections of shared libraries.
3072 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3073 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3074 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3075 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3076 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3077 things you don't want them to.
3078 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3079 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3083 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3086 shared libraries. (#26414)
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3090 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3092 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3093 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3094 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3095 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3099 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3103 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3105 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3106 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3107 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3108 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3109 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3113 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3116 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3120 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3123 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3124 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3129 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3132 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3136 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3139 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3140 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3141 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3142 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3143 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3145 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3146 remove debian/files properly.
3147 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3148 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3149 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3150 * Removed bogus menu file.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3154 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3157 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3161 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3164 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3165 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3166 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3167 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3168 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3169 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3173 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3176 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3177 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3178 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3179 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3183 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3190 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3193 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3194 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3196 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3197 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3198 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3199 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3200 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3201 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3205 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3208 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3209 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3210 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3211 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3212 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3213 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3214 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3215 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3216 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3217 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3218 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3219 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3220 passed any switches.
3221 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3225 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3228 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3229 at all for a long while.
3230 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3231 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3232 large chunks in the process.
3233 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3234 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3235 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3240 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3243 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3245 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3250 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3253 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3254 that don't always have the same files in them.
3255 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3256 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3257 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3261 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3265 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3266 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3267 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3268 updating 27 man pages.
3269 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3270 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3271 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3272 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3273 programs act on. (#25247)
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3277 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3281 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3282 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3283 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3284 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3285 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3286 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3291 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3298 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3305 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3308 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3312 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3318 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3321 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3322 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3323 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3324 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3325 package by accident.
3326 * Is version 1.0 next?
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3330 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3333 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3334 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3338 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3341 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3342 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3343 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3344 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3345 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3347 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3352 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3355 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3356 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3360 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3363 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3367 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3370 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3371 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3376 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3382 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3385 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3386 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3391 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3397 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3400 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3401 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3402 past week. Thanks, guys!
3404 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3405 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3406 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3407 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3408 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3409 would do in the same situation.
3410 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3411 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3413 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3415 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3416 permissions changed.
3417 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3418 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3419 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3420 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3421 files are treated identically.
3422 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3423 * Minor man page fixes.
3424 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3425 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3426 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3430 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3433 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3434 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3435 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3436 use -X multiple times, too.
3437 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3438 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3442 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3445 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3446 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3450 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3453 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3457 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3460 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3461 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3462 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3463 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3464 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3465 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3466 shape if you're starting a new package.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3470 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3473 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3477 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3480 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3481 because of missing symlinks.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3485 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3491 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3494 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3495 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3496 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3497 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3498 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3500 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3501 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3505 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3507 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3508 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3509 to be changed after the fact :-)
3510 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3514 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3517 no version string after the -V.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3521 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3523 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3524 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3529 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3532 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3536 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3539 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3540 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3541 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3542 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3543 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3544 I always welcome corrections!
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3548 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3554 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3557 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3558 * Documented this new switch.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3562 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3565 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3566 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3567 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3568 no packages use the old behavior.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3572 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3575 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3576 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3580 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3583 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3587 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3593 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3596 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3600 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3603 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3604 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3605 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3609 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3615 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3618 into the source package by accident.
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3622 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3625 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3626 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3627 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3628 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3629 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3630 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3635 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3639 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3640 inspired to implement some of it.
3641 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3645 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3648 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3652 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3655 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3656 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3660 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3663 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3664 have done.) (#17598)
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3668 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3674 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3680 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3683 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3687 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3690 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3691 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3695 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3698 argument processor in perl.
3699 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3700 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3701 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3702 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3706 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3709 type directories. (#16933)
3710 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3711 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3712 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3713 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3714 are supported. (#16935)
3715 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3720 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3723 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3727 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3731 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3732 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3733 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3734 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3735 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3736 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3740 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3743 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3744 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3746 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3747 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3748 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3749 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3750 a given package, or -i or -a.
3751 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3752 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3753 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3754 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3755 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3756 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3757 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3758 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3759 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3761 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3762 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3763 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3767 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3770 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3771 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3776 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3779 does not have a section.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3783 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3786 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3787 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3788 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3792 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Fixed typo #16215.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3798 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3801 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3802 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3803 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3804 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3805 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3810 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3813 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3814 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3815 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3820 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3826 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3832 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3835 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3836 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3837 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3838 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3839 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3840 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3844 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3850 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3853 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3857 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3860 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3861 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3862 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3866 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3869 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3873 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3879 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3882 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3886 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3889 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3893 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3899 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3902 postinst, postrm, etc.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3906 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3912 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3915 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3916 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3917 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3918 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3919 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3923 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3926 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3927 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3931 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3934 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3938 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3941 installing package files into.
3942 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3947 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3951 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3955 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3961 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3964 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3968 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3971 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3972 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3973 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3974 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3978 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3980 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3981 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3982 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3983 multiple binary packages.
3984 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3985 should rebuild them with this version.
3986 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3990 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3993 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3997 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4000 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4004 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4007 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4008 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4009 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4010 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4011 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4012 debian/README.debian.
4013 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4014 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4015 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4016 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4017 in a few situations.)
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4021 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4027 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4033 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4036 * Fixed several man pages.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4040 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4043 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4044 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4048 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4051 is ready for general use.
4052 * Added man pages for all commands.
4053 * Multiple binary package support.
4054 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4055 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4056 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4058 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4059 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4060 auto-installed as parameters.
4061 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4063 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4066 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4067 the package build directory it is to act on.
4068 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4069 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4070 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4074 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4076 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4077 ready to replace debstd.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400