1 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
5 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
6 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
7 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
8 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
9 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
10 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
11 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
12 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
13 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
14 Closes: #88464, #77743
15 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
16 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
17 us to deal with that gracefully.
18 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
20 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
21 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
22 a while, Closes: #51225
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
26 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
32 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
35 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
39 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
43 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
48 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
51 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
52 don't make packlist files.
53 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
54 debhelper coding standards.
55 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
56 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
60 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
63 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
67 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
70 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
71 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
72 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
73 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
74 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
75 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
76 but is mildly deprecated.
77 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
78 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
79 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
80 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
81 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
82 switching to statoverrides..
83 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
84 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
85 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
86 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
87 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
88 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
90 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
91 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
92 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
93 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
94 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
95 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
96 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
97 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
98 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
100 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
101 variable names, pod man pages).
102 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
103 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
104 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
105 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
106 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
107 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
108 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
112 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
118 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
120 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
125 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
128 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
132 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
134 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
135 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
136 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
140 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
142 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
143 they were previously ignored.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
147 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
149 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
150 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
154 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
156 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
157 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
158 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
162 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
164 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
168 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
170 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
171 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
175 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
177 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
178 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
179 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
180 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
181 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
182 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
183 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
184 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
185 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
186 it is an obsolete program.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
190 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
192 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
196 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
200 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
202 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
206 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
208 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
210 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
212 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
216 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
222 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
224 * typo: Closes, #78567
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
228 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
234 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
240 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
242 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
243 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
244 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
245 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
246 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
247 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
251 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
254 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
259 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
262 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
263 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
264 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
265 backwards-compatability.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
269 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
271 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
272 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
273 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
274 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
275 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
276 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
277 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
279 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
280 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
281 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
283 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
285 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
286 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
287 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
288 should now be raised to severity important..
289 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
290 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
294 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
297 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
302 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Typo, Closes: #77441
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
308 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Completed the fix from the last version.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
314 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
320 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
322 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
327 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
330 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
331 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
332 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
333 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
337 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
343 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
346 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
347 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
348 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
349 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
350 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
351 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
356 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
359 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
363 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
369 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
372 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
377 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
380 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
381 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
382 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
383 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
387 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
391 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
394 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
396 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
397 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
398 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
401 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
403 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
404 the TODO entry about it.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
408 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
415 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
418 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
419 prevent that. Closes: #73052
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
423 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Typo, Closes: #72932
426 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
427 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
428 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
429 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
433 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
439 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
446 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
449 (this appears to be logal).
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
453 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
456 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
457 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
458 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
459 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
463 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
469 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
471 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
472 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
473 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
474 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
475 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
479 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
485 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
488 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
492 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
499 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
502 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
503 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
504 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
509 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
516 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
518 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
522 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
524 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
525 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
526 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
527 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
528 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
529 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
530 notice until v2 is complete.
531 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
532 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
533 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
534 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
535 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
536 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
538 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
539 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
540 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
541 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
545 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
551 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
558 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
561 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
565 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
572 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
575 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
576 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
577 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
578 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
583 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
586 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
587 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
588 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
593 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
596 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
597 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
601 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
604 just skip files that end in -\d+.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
608 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
611 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
615 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
622 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
624 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
625 depend on the build and install targets.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
629 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
632 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
636 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
649 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
655 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
658 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
659 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
660 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
661 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
662 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
663 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
665 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
666 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
667 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
668 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
669 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
670 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
671 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
675 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
681 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
687 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
690 right place. Closes: #55065
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
694 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
701 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Make all examples rules files executable.
704 * Copyright date updates.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
708 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
711 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
716 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
722 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
729 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
735 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
741 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
747 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
750 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
751 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
752 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
753 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
754 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
755 bits until all files have been registered.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
759 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_installmanpages:
762 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
763 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
764 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
765 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
766 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
767 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
768 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
769 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
770 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
771 otherwise change the result at all.
773 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
774 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
775 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
776 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
777 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
782 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
788 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
791 act on files that don't exist.
792 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
793 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
794 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
796 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
797 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
798 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
799 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
803 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
809 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
815 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
818 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
822 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
825 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
827 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
828 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
829 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
833 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
836 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
837 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
838 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
839 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
840 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
841 does not compress. Closes: #41733
842 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
844 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
846 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
850 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
857 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
863 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
869 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
872 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
876 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
882 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
888 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
891 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
892 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
893 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
894 I made some changes, though:
895 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
896 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
897 that is a clear violation of policy.
898 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
899 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
900 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
901 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
902 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
903 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
904 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
905 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
906 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
908 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
912 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
918 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
921 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
925 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
928 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
929 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
934 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
940 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
947 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
950 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
951 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
952 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
953 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
954 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
955 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
956 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
960 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
966 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
970 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
971 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
975 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
981 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
984 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
988 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
991 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
992 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
998 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1003 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1007 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1011 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1014 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1015 for the dependancies to be generated.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1019 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1022 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1026 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1029 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1030 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1031 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1036 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1039 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1040 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1044 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1050 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1056 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1059 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1063 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1069 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1072 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1073 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1074 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1075 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1076 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1077 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1078 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1079 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1080 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1081 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1082 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1083 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1087 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1090 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1091 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1093 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1094 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1095 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1096 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1097 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1098 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1100 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1101 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1105 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1108 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1112 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1119 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1122 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1127 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1130 for building debhelper.
1131 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1135 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1142 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1145 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1149 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1152 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1153 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1154 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1155 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1156 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1157 it's always available.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1161 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1164 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1165 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1166 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1170 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1173 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1174 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1178 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1187 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1191 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1200 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1201 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1202 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1206 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1209 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1217 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1218 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1220 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1221 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1225 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1231 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1237 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1240 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1244 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1247 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1248 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1250 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1257 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1258 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1259 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1263 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1266 things if CDPATH is set.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1270 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1276 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1279 seems to make sense for the transition.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1283 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1286 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1291 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1294 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1295 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1299 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1302 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1306 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1309 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1310 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1311 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1312 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1322 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1325 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1326 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1327 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1328 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1329 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1330 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1331 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1332 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1333 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1334 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1339 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1342 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1343 * README: mention doc/v2
1344 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1345 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1349 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1351 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1352 be using this script RSN.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1356 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1359 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1360 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1361 more than 1 init script.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1365 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1368 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1372 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Changed perl version detection.
1375 * Changed call to find.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1379 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1382 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1384 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1389 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Really include dh_installpam.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1395 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1398 * Wrote man page for same.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1402 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1405 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1406 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1411 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1418 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1421 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1422 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1423 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1424 x bit was being set!
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1428 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1431 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1432 well. (Closes: 38900)
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1436 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1439 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1440 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1444 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1450 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1457 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1463 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1466 help from Julian Gilbey.
1467 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1468 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1469 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1470 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1471 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1472 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1473 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1478 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1484 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1491 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1497 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1503 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1506 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1510 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1513 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1517 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1520 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1524 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1530 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1533 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1537 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1543 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1549 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1552 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1553 may be deleted. (#35845)
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1557 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Various man page enhancements.
1560 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1565 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1568 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1569 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1576 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1577 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1578 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1580 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1581 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1586 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1592 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Another very minor typo fix.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1598 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Very minor typo fix.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1604 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1607 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1608 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1612 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1618 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1621 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1622 variables properly (#34850).
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1626 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1632 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1635 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1636 (automatically generated by build process).
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1640 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1642 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1646 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1649 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1650 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1652 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1656 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1659 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1663 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * README: minor typo fix.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1669 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1672 leave it at that. :-)
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1676 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1682 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1688 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1691 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1692 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1693 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1697 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1700 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1704 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1707 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1711 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1714 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1715 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1716 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1717 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1721 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1724 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1725 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1726 Craig Small for spotting this.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1730 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1733 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1734 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1738 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1744 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1747 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1751 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1753 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1754 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1755 working on the last version of debhelper.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1759 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1762 being made. (#23255)
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1766 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1772 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1775 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1779 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1782 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1783 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1784 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1785 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1789 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1792 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1793 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1794 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1795 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1797 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1798 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1800 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1805 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1811 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1817 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1820 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1821 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1822 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1823 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1824 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1825 suidregister actually supports it.
1826 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1827 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1831 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1838 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1841 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1842 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1843 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1844 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1845 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1846 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1847 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1851 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1853 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1854 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1858 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1861 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1862 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1863 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1864 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1868 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1871 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1873 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1874 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1875 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1876 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1877 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1878 effect, either. (#30118)
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1882 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1888 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1891 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1892 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1896 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1902 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1905 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1906 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1907 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1908 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1912 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1915 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1916 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1920 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1926 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1929 packages, painlessly.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1933 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1939 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1945 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1951 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * The perl conversion is complete.
1955 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1957 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1958 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1959 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1964 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1967 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1968 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1969 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1973 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1976 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1978 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1980 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1981 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1985 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1988 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1989 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1993 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1999 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2002 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2003 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2004 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2005 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2006 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2010 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2013 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2014 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2015 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2016 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2020 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2023 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2027 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2030 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2031 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2032 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2033 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2034 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2035 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2036 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2037 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2041 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2047 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2050 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2051 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2052 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2057 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2060 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2064 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2067 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2071 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2074 sections of shared libraries.
2075 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2076 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2077 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2078 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2079 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2080 things you don't want them to.
2081 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2082 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2086 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2089 shared libraries. (#26414)
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2093 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2095 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2096 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2097 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2098 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2102 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2106 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2108 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2109 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2110 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2111 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2112 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2116 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2119 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2123 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2126 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2127 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2132 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2135 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2139 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2142 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2143 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2144 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2145 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2146 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2148 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2149 remove debian/files properly.
2150 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2151 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2152 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2153 * Removed bogus menu file.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2157 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2160 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2164 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2167 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2168 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2169 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2170 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2171 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2172 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2176 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2179 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2180 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2181 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2182 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2186 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2193 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2196 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2197 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2199 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2200 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2201 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2202 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2203 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2204 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2208 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2211 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2212 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2213 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2214 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2215 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2216 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2217 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2218 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2219 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2220 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2221 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2222 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2223 passed any switches.
2224 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2228 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2231 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2232 at all for a long while.
2233 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2234 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2235 large chunks in the process.
2236 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2237 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2238 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2243 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2246 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2248 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2253 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2256 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2257 that don't always have the same files in them.
2258 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2259 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2260 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2264 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2268 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2269 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2270 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2271 updating 27 man pages.
2272 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2273 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2274 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2275 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2276 programs act on. (#25247)
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2280 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2284 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2285 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2286 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2287 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2288 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2289 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2294 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2301 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2308 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2311 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2315 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2321 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2324 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2325 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2326 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2327 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2328 package by accident.
2329 * Is version 1.0 next?
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2333 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2336 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2337 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2341 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2344 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2345 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2346 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2347 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2348 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2350 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2355 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2358 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2359 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2363 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2366 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2370 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2373 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2374 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2379 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2385 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2388 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2389 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2394 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2400 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2403 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2404 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2405 past week. Thanks, guys!
2407 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2408 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2409 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2410 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2411 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2412 would do in the same situation.
2413 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2414 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2416 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2418 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2419 permissions changed.
2420 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2421 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2422 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2423 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2424 files are treated identically.
2425 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2426 * Minor man page fixes.
2427 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2428 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2429 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2433 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2436 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2437 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2438 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2439 use -X multiple times, too.
2440 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2441 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2445 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2448 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2449 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2453 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2456 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2460 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2463 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2464 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2465 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2466 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2467 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2468 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2469 shape if you're starting a new package.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2473 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2476 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2480 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2483 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2484 because of missing symlinks.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2488 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2494 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2497 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2498 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2499 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2500 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2501 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2503 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2504 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2508 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2510 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2511 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2512 to be changed after the fact :-)
2513 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2517 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2520 no version string after the -V.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2524 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2526 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2527 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2532 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2535 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2539 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2542 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2543 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2544 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2545 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2546 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2547 I always welcome corrections!
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2551 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2557 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2560 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2561 * Documented this new switch.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2565 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2568 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2569 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2570 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2571 no packages use the old behavior.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2575 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2578 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2579 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2583 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2586 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2590 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2596 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2599 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2603 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2606 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2607 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2608 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2612 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2618 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2621 into the source package by accident.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2625 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2628 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2629 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2630 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2631 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2632 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2633 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2638 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2642 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2643 inspired to implement some of it.
2644 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2648 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2651 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2655 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2658 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2659 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2663 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2666 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2667 have done.) (#17598)
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2671 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2677 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2683 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2686 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2690 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2693 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2694 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2698 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2701 argument processor in perl.
2702 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2703 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2704 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2705 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2709 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2712 type directories. (#16933)
2713 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2714 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2715 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2716 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2717 are supported. (#16935)
2718 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2723 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2726 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2730 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2734 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2735 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2736 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2737 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2738 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2739 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2743 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2746 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2747 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2749 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2750 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2751 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2752 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2753 a given package, or -i or -a.
2754 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2755 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2756 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2757 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2758 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2759 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2760 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2761 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2762 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2764 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2765 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2766 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2770 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2773 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2774 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2779 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2782 does not have a section.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2786 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2789 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2790 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2791 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2795 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Fixed typo #16215.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2801 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2804 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2805 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2806 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2807 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2808 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2813 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2816 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2817 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2818 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2823 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2829 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2835 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2838 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2839 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2840 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2841 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2842 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2843 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2847 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2853 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2856 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2860 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2863 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2864 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2865 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2869 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2872 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2876 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2882 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2885 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2889 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2892 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2896 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2902 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2905 postinst, postrm, etc.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2909 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2915 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2918 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2919 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2920 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2921 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2922 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2926 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2929 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2930 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2934 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2937 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2941 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2944 installing package files into.
2945 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2950 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2954 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2958 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2964 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2967 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2971 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2974 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2975 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2976 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2977 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2981 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2983 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2984 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2985 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2986 multiple binary packages.
2987 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2988 should rebuild them with this version.
2989 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2993 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2996 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3000 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3003 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3007 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3010 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3011 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3012 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3013 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3014 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3015 debian/README.debian.
3016 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3017 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3018 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3019 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3020 in a few situations.)
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3024 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3030 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3036 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3039 * Fixed several man pages.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3043 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3046 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3047 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3051 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3054 is ready for general use.
3055 * Added man pages for all commands.
3056 * Multiple binary package support.
3057 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3058 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3059 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3061 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3062 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3063 auto-installed as parameters.
3064 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3066 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3069 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3070 the package build directory it is to act on.
3071 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3072 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3073 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3077 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3079 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3080 ready to replace debstd.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400