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authorjoey <joey>1999-08-17 04:49:12 +0000
committerjoey <joey>1999-08-17 04:49:12 +0000
commit8a27e8edfd06c742fe3ff2aceda1588daf175527 (patch)
treea95341333364ccd6f6bbf2e7f34feb48c9ba5fd0
parent5b6296acab65d26858e1255e48fe8e54f2f3abf8 (diff)
downloaddebhelper-8a27e8edfd06c742fe3ff2aceda1588daf175527.tar.gz
r75: Initial Import
-rw-r--r--PROGRAMMING2
-rw-r--r--README9
-rw-r--r--TODO14
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog7
-rwxr-xr-xexamples/rules.indep2
-rwxr-xr-xexamples/rules.multi2
6 files changed, 25 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/PROGRAMMING b/PROGRAMMING
index c290c34d..22e015af 100644
--- a/PROGRAMMING
+++ b/PROGRAMMING
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ merge these modifications into the actual postinst scripts.
There are always exceptions. Just ask me.
Introducing dh_lib:
--------------------
+------------------
All debhelper programs use the dh_lib library (actually it's a shell script)
to parse their arguments and set some useful variables. It's not mandatory
diff --git a/README b/README
index ae0e53a1..f821e8c0 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ that use debhelper commands extensively. See /usr/doc/debhelper/examples/ .
These files are also useful as they give one good order you can run the
various debhelper scripts in (though other variations are possible).
+Starting a new package:
+----------------------
+
+You can just use the example rules files and do the rest of the new package
+set up by hand, or you could try the new dh-make package, which contains a
+"dh_make" command that is similar to debmake, and tries to automate the
+process.
Converting from debstd to debhelper:
-----------------------------------
@@ -59,7 +66,7 @@ commands. So if you have postinst, postrm, etc scripts, add a line reading
Once you think it's all set up properly, do a test build of your package. If
it works ok, I recommend that you compare the new package and the old
-debstd-generated package very closely. Pay special attention to the postint,
+debstd-generated package very closely. Pay special attention to the postinst,
postrm, etc scripts.
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index a6646b11..064dcbf0 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -3,28 +3,28 @@
debmake (wishlist bug #17043). I just never saw the point of that file..
- Make dh_movefiles remove emptied directories after it's moved all the
files out of them (wishlist bug #17111).
-* dh_fixperms: allow listing of files not to be touched (diffucult).
+* dh_fixperms: allow listing of files not to be touched (difficult).
* add a dh_debstd, which mimics debstd, but uses debhelper tools internally.
- Note thatthe idea here is not just another debstd. This program will have
+ Note that the idea here is not just another debstd. This program will have
a -v switch, that lists all the other debhelper commands it needs to run to
do what debstd had to do. The intent is to make it easy to switch from
debstd to debhelper.
* dh_compress: add --exclude "*.conf" type-thingy, since that's the change
- you most often want to make to what it does, and a debian/conpress file is
+ you most often want to make to what it does, and a debian/compress file is
overkill in those cases.
-* info support for debhelper (currently implmented, but I hate how I did it,
+* info support for debhelper (currently implemented, but I hate how I did it,
so it's not in the package.) (wishlist bug #15717)
* enhance dh_installmanpages so it associates binaries and man pages and
installs the man pages into the correct areas to suit the binaries they
document. I may need to make this only happen when a switch is given, to
- preserve backward compatability.
+ preserve backward compatibility.
* maybe make dh_installmanpages look at the .TH line of man pages whose
filenames end in .man, to figure out what section they go it. This would
- require a switch to turn on, for backwards compatability.
+ require a switch to turn on, for backwards compatibility.
* All debhelper programs should be checked that they output files with the
correct permissions no matter what the umask is set to. Currently, only
those programs that run after dh_fixperms have been so checked. (Checking
the rest is low priority, since dh_fixperms fixes any incorrect permissions
they might have; still it would be nice to check them too, just to make
debhelper more flexible.) One easy fix is to add umask 022 to dh_lib,
- however, there may be unforseen ramifications of such a change.
+ however, there may be unforeseen ramifications of such a change.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 567dbb9f..1ee38252 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
+ no version string after the -V.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
+
debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
diff --git a/examples/rules.indep b/examples/rules.indep
index 2e74e852..7ba839ad 100755
--- a/examples/rules.indep
+++ b/examples/rules.indep
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/usr/bin/make -f
# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper. GNU copyright 1997 by Joey Hess.
-# This version is for packages that are architecure independant.
+# This version is for packages that are architecture independent.
# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
#export DH_VERBOSE=1
diff --git a/examples/rules.multi b/examples/rules.multi
index 1cfeb425..33a1a4ac 100755
--- a/examples/rules.multi
+++ b/examples/rules.multi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/usr/bin/make -f
# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper. GNU copyright 1997 by Joey Hess.
# This version is for a hypothetical package that builds an
-# architecture-dependant package, as well as an architecture-independant
+# architecture-dependant package, as well as an architecture-independent
# package.
# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.