1 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4 (this appears to be logal).
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
8 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
11 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
12 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
13 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
14 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
18 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
24 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
26 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
27 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
28 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
29 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
30 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
34 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
40 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
43 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
47 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
54 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
57 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
58 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
59 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
64 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
71 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
77 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
79 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
80 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
81 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
82 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
83 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
84 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
85 notice until v2 is complete.
86 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
87 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
88 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
89 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
90 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
91 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
93 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
94 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
95 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
96 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
100 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
106 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
113 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
116 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
120 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
127 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
130 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
131 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
132 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
133 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
138 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
141 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
142 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
143 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
148 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
151 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
152 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
156 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
159 just skip files that end in -\d+.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
163 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
166 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
170 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
177 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
179 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
180 depend on the build and install targets.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
184 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
187 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
191 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
198 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
204 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
210 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
213 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
214 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
215 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
216 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
217 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
218 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
220 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
221 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
222 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
223 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
224 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
225 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
226 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
230 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
236 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
238 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
242 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
245 right place. Closes: #55065
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
249 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
256 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Make all examples rules files executable.
259 * Copyright date updates.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
263 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
266 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
271 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
277 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
284 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
290 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
296 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
302 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
305 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
306 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
307 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
308 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
309 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
310 bits until all files have been registered.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
314 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_installmanpages:
317 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
318 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
319 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
320 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
321 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
322 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
323 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
324 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
325 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
326 otherwise change the result at all.
328 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
329 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
330 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
331 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
332 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
337 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
343 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
346 act on files that don't exist.
347 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
348 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
349 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
351 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
352 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
353 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
354 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
358 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
364 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
370 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
373 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
377 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
380 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
382 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
383 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
384 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
388 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
391 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
392 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
393 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
394 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
395 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
396 does not compress. Closes: #41733
397 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
399 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
401 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
405 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
412 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
418 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
420 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
424 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
427 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
431 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
437 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
443 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
446 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
447 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
448 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
449 I made some changes, though:
450 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
451 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
452 that is a clear violation of policy.
453 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
454 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
455 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
456 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
457 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
458 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
459 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
460 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
461 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
463 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
467 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
473 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
476 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
480 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
483 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
484 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
489 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
495 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
502 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
505 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
506 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
507 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
508 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
509 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
510 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
511 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
515 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
521 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
525 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
526 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
530 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
536 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
539 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
543 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
546 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
547 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
551 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
553 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
558 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
562 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
566 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
568 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
569 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
570 for the dependancies to be generated.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
574 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
577 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
581 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
584 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
585 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
586 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
591 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
594 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
595 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
599 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
605 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
611 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
614 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
618 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
624 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
626 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
627 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
628 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
629 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
630 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
631 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
632 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
633 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
634 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
635 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
636 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
637 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
638 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
642 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
644 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
645 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
646 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
648 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
649 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
650 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
651 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
652 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
653 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
655 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
656 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
660 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
663 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
667 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
674 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
676 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
677 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
682 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
685 for building debhelper.
686 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
690 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
697 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Fixed makefile commit target.
700 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
704 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
707 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
708 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
709 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
710 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
711 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
712 it's always available.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
716 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
719 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
720 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
721 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
725 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
728 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
729 modules. (Closes: #42171)
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
733 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
739 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
742 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
746 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
752 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
755 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
756 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
757 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
761 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
764 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
769 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
772 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
773 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
775 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
776 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
780 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
794 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
795 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
802 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
803 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
805 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
809 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
812 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
813 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
814 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
818 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
821 things if CDPATH is set.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
825 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
831 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
834 seems to make sense for the transition.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
841 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
846 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
849 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
850 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
854 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
857 that version. (Closes: #40589)
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
861 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
863 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
864 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
865 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
866 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
867 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
871 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
880 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
881 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
882 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
883 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
884 * debhelper.1: documented this.
885 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
886 current compatability level is equal to that number.
887 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
888 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
889 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
894 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
896 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
897 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
898 * README: mention doc/v2
899 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
900 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
904 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
906 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
907 be using this script RSN.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
911 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
914 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
915 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
916 more than 1 init script.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
920 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
923 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
927 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Changed perl version detection.
930 * Changed call to find.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
934 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
937 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
939 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
944 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Really include dh_installpam.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
950 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
953 * Wrote man page for same.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
957 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
960 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
961 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
966 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
973 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
976 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
977 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
978 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
983 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
986 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
987 well. (Closes: 38900)
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
991 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
994 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
995 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
999 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1005 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1012 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1018 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1021 help from Julian Gilbey.
1022 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1023 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1024 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1025 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1026 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1027 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1028 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1033 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1039 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1052 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1058 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1061 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1065 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1068 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1072 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1075 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1079 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1085 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1088 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1092 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1098 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1104 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1107 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1108 may be deleted. (#35845)
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1112 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Various man page enhancements.
1115 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1120 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1123 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1124 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1128 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1131 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1132 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1133 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1135 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1136 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1141 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1147 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Another very minor typo fix.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1153 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Very minor typo fix.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1159 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1162 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1163 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1167 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1173 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1176 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1177 variables properly (#34850).
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1181 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1187 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1190 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1191 (automatically generated by build process).
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1195 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1197 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1201 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1204 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1205 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1207 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1211 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1214 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1218 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * README: minor typo fix.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1224 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1227 leave it at that. :-)
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1231 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1237 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1243 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1246 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1247 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1248 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1252 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1255 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1259 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1262 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1266 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1269 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1270 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1271 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1272 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1276 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1279 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1280 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1281 Craig Small for spotting this.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1285 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1288 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1289 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1293 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1299 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1302 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1306 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1308 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1309 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1310 working on the last version of debhelper.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1314 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1317 being made. (#23255)
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1321 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1327 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1330 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1334 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1337 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1338 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1339 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1340 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1344 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1347 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1348 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1349 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1350 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1352 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1353 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1355 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1360 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1366 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1372 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1375 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1376 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1377 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1378 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1379 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1380 suidregister actually supports it.
1381 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1382 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1386 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1393 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1396 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1397 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1398 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1399 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1400 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1401 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1402 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1406 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1408 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1409 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1413 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1416 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1417 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1418 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1419 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1423 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1426 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1428 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1429 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1430 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1431 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1432 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1433 effect, either. (#30118)
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1437 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1443 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1446 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1447 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1451 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1457 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1460 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1461 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1462 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1463 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1467 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1470 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1471 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1475 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1481 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1484 packages, painlessly.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1488 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1494 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1500 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1506 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * The perl conversion is complete.
1510 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1512 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1513 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1514 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1519 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1522 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1523 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1524 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1528 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1531 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1533 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1535 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1536 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1540 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1543 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1544 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1548 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1554 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1557 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1558 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1559 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1560 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1561 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1565 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1568 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1569 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1570 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1571 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1575 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1578 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1582 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1585 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1586 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1587 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1588 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1589 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1590 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1591 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1592 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1596 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1602 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1605 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1606 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1607 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1612 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1615 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1619 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1622 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1626 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1629 sections of shared libraries.
1630 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1631 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1632 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1633 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1634 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1635 things you don't want them to.
1636 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1637 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1641 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1644 shared libraries. (#26414)
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1648 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1650 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1651 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1652 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1653 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1657 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1661 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1663 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1664 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1665 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1666 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1667 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1671 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1674 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1678 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1681 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1682 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1687 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1690 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1694 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1697 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1698 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1699 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1700 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1701 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1703 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1704 remove debian/files properly.
1705 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1706 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1707 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1708 * Removed bogus menu file.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1712 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1715 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1719 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1722 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1723 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1724 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1725 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1726 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1727 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1731 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1734 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1735 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1736 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1737 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1741 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1748 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1751 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1752 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1754 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1755 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1756 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1757 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1758 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1759 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1763 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1766 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1767 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1768 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1769 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1770 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1771 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1772 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1773 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1774 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1775 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1776 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1777 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1778 passed any switches.
1779 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1783 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1786 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1787 at all for a long while.
1788 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1789 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1790 large chunks in the process.
1791 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1792 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1793 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1798 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1801 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1803 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1808 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1811 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1812 that don't always have the same files in them.
1813 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1814 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1815 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1819 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1823 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1824 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1825 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1826 updating 27 man pages.
1827 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1828 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1829 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1830 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1831 programs act on. (#25247)
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1835 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1839 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1840 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1841 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1842 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1843 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1844 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1849 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1856 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1863 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1866 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1870 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1876 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1879 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1880 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1881 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1882 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1883 package by accident.
1884 * Is version 1.0 next?
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1888 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1891 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1892 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1896 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1899 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1900 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1901 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1902 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1903 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1905 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1910 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1913 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1914 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1918 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1921 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1925 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1928 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1929 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1934 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1940 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1943 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1944 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1949 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1955 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1958 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1959 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1960 past week. Thanks, guys!
1962 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1963 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1964 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1965 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1966 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1967 would do in the same situation.
1968 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1969 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1971 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1973 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1974 permissions changed.
1975 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1976 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1977 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1978 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1979 files are treated identically.
1980 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1981 * Minor man page fixes.
1982 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1983 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1984 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1988 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1991 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1992 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1993 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1994 use -X multiple times, too.
1995 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1996 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2000 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2003 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2004 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2008 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2011 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2015 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2018 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2019 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2020 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2021 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2022 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2023 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2024 shape if you're starting a new package.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2028 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2031 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2035 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2038 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2039 because of missing symlinks.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2043 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2049 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2052 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2053 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2054 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2055 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2056 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2058 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2059 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2063 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2065 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2066 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2067 to be changed after the fact :-)
2068 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2072 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2075 no version string after the -V.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2079 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2081 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2082 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2087 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2090 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2094 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2097 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2098 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2099 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2100 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2101 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2102 I always welcome corrections!
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2106 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2112 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2115 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2116 * Documented this new switch.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2120 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2123 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2124 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2125 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2126 no packages use the old behavior.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2130 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2133 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2134 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2138 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2141 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2145 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2151 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2154 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2158 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2161 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2162 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2163 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2167 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2173 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2176 into the source package by accident.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2180 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2183 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2184 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2185 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2186 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2187 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2188 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2193 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2197 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2198 inspired to implement some of it.
2199 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2203 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2206 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2210 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2213 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2214 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2218 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2221 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2222 have done.) (#17598)
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2226 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2232 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2238 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2241 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2245 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2248 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2249 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2253 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2256 argument processor in perl.
2257 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2258 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2259 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2260 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2264 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2267 type directories. (#16933)
2268 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2269 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2270 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2271 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2272 are supported. (#16935)
2273 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2278 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2281 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2285 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2289 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2290 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2291 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2292 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2293 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2294 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2298 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2301 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2302 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2304 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2305 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2306 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2307 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2308 a given package, or -i or -a.
2309 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2310 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2311 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2312 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2313 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2314 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2315 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2316 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2317 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2319 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2320 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2321 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2325 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2328 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2329 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2334 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2337 does not have a section.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2341 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2344 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2345 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2346 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2350 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Fixed typo #16215.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2356 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2359 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2360 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2361 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2362 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2363 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2368 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2371 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2372 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2373 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2378 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2384 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2390 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2393 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2394 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2395 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2396 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2397 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2398 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2402 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2408 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2411 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2415 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2418 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2419 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2420 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2424 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2427 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2431 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2437 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2440 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2444 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2447 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2451 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2457 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2460 postinst, postrm, etc.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2464 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2470 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2473 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2474 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2475 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2476 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2477 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2481 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2484 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2485 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2489 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2492 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2496 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2499 installing package files into.
2500 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2505 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2509 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2513 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2519 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2522 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2526 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2529 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2530 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2531 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2532 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2536 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2538 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2539 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2540 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2541 multiple binary packages.
2542 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2543 should rebuild them with this version.
2544 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2548 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2551 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2555 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2558 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2562 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2565 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2566 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2567 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2568 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2569 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2570 debian/README.debian.
2571 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2572 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2573 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2574 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2575 in a few situations.)
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2579 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2585 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2591 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2594 * Fixed several man pages.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2598 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2601 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2602 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2606 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2609 is ready for general use.
2610 * Added man pages for all commands.
2611 * Multiple binary package support.
2612 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2613 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2614 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2616 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2617 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2618 auto-installed as parameters.
2619 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2621 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2624 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2625 the package build directory it is to act on.
2626 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2627 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2628 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2632 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2634 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2635 ready to replace debstd.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400