1 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
5 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
7 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
11 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
13 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
15 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
17 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
21 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
27 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
29 * typo: Closes, #78567
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
33 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
39 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
45 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
47 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
48 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
49 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
50 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
51 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
52 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
56 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
59 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
64 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
67 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
68 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
69 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
70 backwards-compatability.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
74 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
76 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
77 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
78 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
79 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
80 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
81 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
82 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
84 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
85 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
86 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
88 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
90 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
91 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
92 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
93 should now be raised to severity important..
94 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
95 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
99 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
102 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
107 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Typo, Closes: #77441
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
113 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Completed the fix from the last version.
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
119 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
125 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
127 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
132 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
135 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
136 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
137 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
138 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
142 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
148 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
151 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
152 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
153 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
154 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
155 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
156 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
161 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
164 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
168 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
174 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
177 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
182 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
185 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
186 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
187 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
188 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
192 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
196 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
199 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
202 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
203 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
206 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
208 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
209 the TODO entry about it.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
213 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
220 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
223 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
224 prevent that. Closes: #73052
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
228 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Typo, Closes: #72932
231 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
232 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
233 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
234 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
238 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
244 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
251 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
254 (this appears to be logal).
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
258 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
261 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
262 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
263 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
264 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
268 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
274 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
276 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
277 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
278 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
279 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
280 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
284 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
290 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
293 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
297 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
304 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
307 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
308 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
309 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
314 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
321 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
327 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
329 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
330 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
331 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
332 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
333 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
334 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
335 notice until v2 is complete.
336 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
337 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
338 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
339 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
340 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
341 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
343 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
344 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
345 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
346 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
350 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
356 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
363 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
366 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
370 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
377 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
380 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
381 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
382 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
383 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
388 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
391 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
392 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
393 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
398 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
401 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
402 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
406 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
409 just skip files that end in -\d+.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
413 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
416 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
420 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
427 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
429 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
430 depend on the build and install targets.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
434 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
437 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
441 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
448 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
454 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
460 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
463 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
464 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
465 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
466 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
467 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
468 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
470 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
471 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
472 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
473 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
474 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
475 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
476 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
480 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
486 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
492 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
495 right place. Closes: #55065
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
499 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
506 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Make all examples rules files executable.
509 * Copyright date updates.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
513 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
516 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
521 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
527 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
534 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
540 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
546 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
552 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
555 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
556 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
557 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
558 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
559 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
560 bits until all files have been registered.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
564 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installmanpages:
567 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
568 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
569 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
570 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
571 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
572 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
573 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
574 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
575 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
576 otherwise change the result at all.
578 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
579 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
580 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
581 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
582 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
587 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
593 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
596 act on files that don't exist.
597 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
598 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
599 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
601 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
602 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
603 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
604 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
608 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
614 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
620 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
623 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
627 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
630 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
632 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
633 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
634 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
638 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
641 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
642 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
643 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
644 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
645 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
646 does not compress. Closes: #41733
647 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
649 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
651 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
655 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
662 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
668 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
674 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
677 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
681 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
687 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
693 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
696 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
697 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
698 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
699 I made some changes, though:
700 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
701 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
702 that is a clear violation of policy.
703 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
704 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
705 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
706 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
707 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
708 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
709 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
710 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
711 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
713 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
717 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
723 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
726 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
730 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
733 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
734 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
739 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
745 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
752 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
755 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
756 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
757 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
758 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
759 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
760 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
761 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
765 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
771 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
775 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
776 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
780 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
789 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
793 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
796 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
797 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
803 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
812 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
816 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
818 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
819 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
820 for the dependancies to be generated.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
824 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
827 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
831 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
834 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
835 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
836 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
841 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
844 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
845 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
849 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
855 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
861 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
864 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
868 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
874 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
876 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
877 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
878 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
879 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
880 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
881 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
882 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
883 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
884 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
885 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
886 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
887 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
888 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
892 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
894 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
895 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
896 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
898 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
899 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
900 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
901 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
902 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
903 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
905 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
906 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
910 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
913 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
917 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
924 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
926 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
927 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
932 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
935 for building debhelper.
936 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
940 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
947 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Fixed makefile commit target.
950 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
954 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
957 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
958 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
959 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
960 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
961 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
962 it's always available.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
966 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
969 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
970 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
971 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
975 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
978 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
979 modules. (Closes: #42171)
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
983 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
989 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
992 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1002 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1005 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1006 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1007 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1011 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1014 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1019 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1022 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1023 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1025 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1026 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1030 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1036 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1042 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1045 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1049 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1052 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1053 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1055 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1059 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1062 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1063 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1064 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1068 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1071 things if CDPATH is set.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1075 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1084 seems to make sense for the transition.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1088 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1091 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1096 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1099 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1100 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1104 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1107 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1111 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1114 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1115 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1116 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1117 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1121 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1127 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1130 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1131 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1132 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1133 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1134 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1135 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1136 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1137 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1138 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1139 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1144 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1147 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1148 * README: mention doc/v2
1149 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1150 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1154 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1156 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1157 be using this script RSN.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1161 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1164 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1165 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1166 more than 1 init script.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1170 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1173 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1177 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Changed perl version detection.
1180 * Changed call to find.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1184 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1187 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1189 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1194 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Really include dh_installpam.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1200 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1203 * Wrote man page for same.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1207 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1210 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1211 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1216 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1223 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1226 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1227 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1228 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1229 x bit was being set!
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1233 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1236 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1237 well. (Closes: 38900)
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1241 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1244 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1245 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1249 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1255 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1262 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1268 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1271 help from Julian Gilbey.
1272 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1273 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1274 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1275 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1276 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1277 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1278 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1283 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1289 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1296 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1302 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1308 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1311 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1315 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1318 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1322 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1325 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1329 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1335 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1338 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1342 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1348 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1354 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1357 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1358 may be deleted. (#35845)
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1362 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Various man page enhancements.
1365 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1370 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1373 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1374 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1378 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1381 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1382 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1383 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1385 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1386 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1391 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1397 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Another very minor typo fix.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1403 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Very minor typo fix.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1409 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1412 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1413 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1417 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1423 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1426 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1427 variables properly (#34850).
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1431 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1437 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1440 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1441 (automatically generated by build process).
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1445 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1447 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1451 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1454 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1455 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1457 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1461 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1464 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1468 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * README: minor typo fix.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1474 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1477 leave it at that. :-)
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1481 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1487 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1493 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1496 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1497 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1498 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1502 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1505 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1509 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1512 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1516 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1519 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1520 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1521 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1522 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1526 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1529 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1530 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1531 Craig Small for spotting this.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1535 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1538 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1539 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1543 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1549 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1552 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1556 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1558 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1559 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1560 working on the last version of debhelper.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1564 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1567 being made. (#23255)
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1571 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1577 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1580 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1584 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1587 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1588 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1589 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1590 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1594 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1597 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1598 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1599 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1600 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1602 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1603 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1605 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1610 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1616 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1622 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1625 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1626 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1627 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1628 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1629 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1630 suidregister actually supports it.
1631 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1632 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1636 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1643 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1646 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1647 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1648 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1649 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1650 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1651 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1652 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1656 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1658 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1659 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1663 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1666 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1667 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1668 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1669 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1673 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1676 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1678 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1679 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1680 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1681 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1682 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1683 effect, either. (#30118)
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1687 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1693 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1696 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1697 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1701 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1707 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1710 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1711 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1712 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1713 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1717 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1720 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1721 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1725 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1731 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1734 packages, painlessly.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1738 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1744 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1750 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1756 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * The perl conversion is complete.
1760 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1762 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1763 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1764 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1769 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1772 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1773 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1774 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1778 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1781 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1783 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1785 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1786 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1790 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1793 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1794 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1798 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1804 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1807 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1808 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1809 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1810 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1811 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1815 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1818 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1819 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1820 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1821 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1825 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1828 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1832 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1835 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1836 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1837 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1838 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1839 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1840 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1841 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1842 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1846 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1852 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1855 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1856 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1857 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1862 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1865 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1869 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1872 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1876 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1879 sections of shared libraries.
1880 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1881 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1882 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1883 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1884 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1885 things you don't want them to.
1886 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1887 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1891 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1894 shared libraries. (#26414)
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1898 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1900 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1901 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1902 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1903 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1907 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1911 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1913 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1914 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1915 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1916 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1917 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1921 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1924 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1928 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1931 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1932 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1937 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1940 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1944 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1947 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1948 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1949 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1950 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1951 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1953 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1954 remove debian/files properly.
1955 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1956 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1957 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1958 * Removed bogus menu file.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1962 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1965 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1969 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1972 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1973 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1974 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1975 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1976 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1977 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1981 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1984 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1985 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1986 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1987 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1991 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1998 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2001 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2002 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2004 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2005 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2006 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2007 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2008 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2009 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2013 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2016 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2017 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2018 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2019 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2020 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2021 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2022 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2023 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2024 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2025 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2026 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2027 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2028 passed any switches.
2029 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2033 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2036 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2037 at all for a long while.
2038 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2039 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2040 large chunks in the process.
2041 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2042 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2043 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2048 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2051 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2053 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2058 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2061 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2062 that don't always have the same files in them.
2063 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2064 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2065 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2069 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2073 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2074 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2075 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2076 updating 27 man pages.
2077 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2078 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2079 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2080 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2081 programs act on. (#25247)
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2085 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2089 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2090 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2091 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2092 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2093 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2094 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2099 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2106 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2113 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2116 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2120 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2126 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2129 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2130 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2131 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2132 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2133 package by accident.
2134 * Is version 1.0 next?
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2138 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2141 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2142 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2146 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2149 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2150 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2151 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2152 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2153 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2155 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2160 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2163 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2164 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2168 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2171 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2175 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2178 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2179 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2184 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2190 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2193 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2194 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2199 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2205 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2208 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2209 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2210 past week. Thanks, guys!
2212 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2213 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2214 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2215 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2216 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2217 would do in the same situation.
2218 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2219 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2221 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2223 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2224 permissions changed.
2225 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2226 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2227 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2228 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2229 files are treated identically.
2230 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2231 * Minor man page fixes.
2232 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2233 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2234 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2238 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2241 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2242 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2243 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2244 use -X multiple times, too.
2245 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2246 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2250 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2253 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2254 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2258 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2261 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2265 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2268 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2269 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2270 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2271 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2272 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2273 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2274 shape if you're starting a new package.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2278 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2281 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2285 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2288 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2289 because of missing symlinks.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2293 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2299 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2302 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2303 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2304 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2305 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2306 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2308 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2309 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2313 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2315 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2316 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2317 to be changed after the fact :-)
2318 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2322 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2325 no version string after the -V.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2329 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2331 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2332 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2337 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2340 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2344 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2347 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2348 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2349 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2350 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2351 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2352 I always welcome corrections!
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2356 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2362 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2365 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2366 * Documented this new switch.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2370 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2373 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2374 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2375 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2376 no packages use the old behavior.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2380 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2383 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2384 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2388 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2391 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2395 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2401 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2404 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2408 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2411 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2412 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2413 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2417 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2423 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2426 into the source package by accident.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2430 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2433 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2434 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2435 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2436 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2437 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2438 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2443 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2447 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2448 inspired to implement some of it.
2449 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2453 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2456 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2460 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2463 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2464 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2468 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2471 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2472 have done.) (#17598)
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2476 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2482 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2488 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2491 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2495 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2498 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2499 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2503 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2506 argument processor in perl.
2507 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2508 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2509 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2510 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2514 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2517 type directories. (#16933)
2518 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2519 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2520 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2521 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2522 are supported. (#16935)
2523 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2528 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2531 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2535 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2539 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2540 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2541 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2542 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2543 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2544 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2548 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2551 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2552 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2554 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2555 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2556 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2557 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2558 a given package, or -i or -a.
2559 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2560 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2561 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2562 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2563 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2564 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2565 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2566 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2567 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2569 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2570 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2571 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2575 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2578 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2579 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2584 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2587 does not have a section.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2591 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2594 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2595 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2596 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2600 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Fixed typo #16215.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2606 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2609 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2610 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2611 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2612 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2613 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2618 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2621 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2622 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2623 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2628 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2634 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2640 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2643 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2644 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2645 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2646 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2647 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2648 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2652 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2658 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2661 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2665 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2668 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2669 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2670 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2674 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2677 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2681 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2687 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2690 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2694 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2697 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2701 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2707 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2710 postinst, postrm, etc.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2714 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2720 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2723 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2724 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2725 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2726 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2727 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2731 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2734 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2735 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2739 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2742 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2746 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2749 installing package files into.
2750 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2755 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2759 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2763 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2769 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2772 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2776 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2779 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2780 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2781 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2782 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2786 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2788 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2789 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2790 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2791 multiple binary packages.
2792 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2793 should rebuild them with this version.
2794 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2798 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2801 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2805 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2808 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2812 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2815 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2816 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2817 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2818 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2819 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2820 debian/README.debian.
2821 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2822 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2823 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2824 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2825 in a few situations.)
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2829 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2835 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2841 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2844 * Fixed several man pages.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2848 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2851 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2852 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2856 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2859 is ready for general use.
2860 * Added man pages for all commands.
2861 * Multiple binary package support.
2862 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2863 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2864 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2866 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2867 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2868 auto-installed as parameters.
2869 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2871 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2874 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2875 the package build directory it is to act on.
2876 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2877 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2878 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2882 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2884 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2885 ready to replace debstd.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400