1 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
8 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
11 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
12 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
13 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
18 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
25 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
31 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
33 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
34 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
35 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
36 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
37 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
38 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
39 notice until v2 is complete.
40 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
41 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
42 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
43 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
44 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
45 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
47 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
48 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
49 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
50 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
54 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
60 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
67 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
70 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
74 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
81 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
84 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
85 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
86 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
87 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
92 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
95 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
96 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
97 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
102 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
105 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
106 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
110 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
113 just skip files that end in -\d+.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
120 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
124 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
131 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
133 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
134 depend on the build and install targets.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
138 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
141 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
145 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
152 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
158 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
164 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
167 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
168 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
169 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
170 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
171 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
172 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
174 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
175 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
176 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
177 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
178 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
179 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
180 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
184 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
190 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
196 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
199 right place. Closes: #55065
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
203 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
210 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Make all examples rules files executable.
213 * Copyright date updates.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
217 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
220 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
225 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
231 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
238 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
244 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
250 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
256 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
259 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
260 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
261 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
262 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
263 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
264 bits until all files have been registered.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
268 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_installmanpages:
271 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
272 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
273 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
274 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
275 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
276 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
277 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
278 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
279 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
280 otherwise change the result at all.
282 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
283 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
284 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
285 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
286 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
291 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
297 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
300 act on files that don't exist.
301 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
302 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
303 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
305 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
306 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
307 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
308 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
312 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
318 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
324 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
327 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
331 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
334 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
336 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
337 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
338 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
342 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
345 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
346 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
347 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
348 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
349 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
350 does not compress. Closes: #41733
351 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
353 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
355 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
359 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
366 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
372 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
378 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
381 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
385 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
391 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
397 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
400 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
401 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
402 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
403 I made some changes, though:
404 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
405 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
406 that is a clear violation of policy.
407 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
408 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
409 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
410 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
411 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
412 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
413 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
414 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
415 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
417 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
421 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
427 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
430 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
434 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
437 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
438 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
443 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
449 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
456 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
459 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
460 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
461 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
462 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
463 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
464 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
465 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
469 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
475 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
479 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
480 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
484 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
490 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
493 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
497 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
500 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
501 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
507 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
512 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
516 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
520 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
522 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
523 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
524 for the dependancies to be generated.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
528 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
531 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
535 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
538 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
539 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
540 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
545 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
548 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
549 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
553 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
559 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
565 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
568 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
572 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
578 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
580 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
581 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
582 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
583 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
584 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
585 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
586 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
587 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
588 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
589 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
590 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
591 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
592 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
596 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
598 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
599 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
600 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
602 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
603 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
604 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
605 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
606 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
607 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
609 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
610 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
614 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
617 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
621 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
628 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
630 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
631 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
636 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
639 for building debhelper.
640 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
644 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
651 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Fixed makefile commit target.
654 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
658 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
661 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
662 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
663 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
664 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
665 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
666 it's always available.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
670 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
673 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
674 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
675 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
679 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
682 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
683 modules. (Closes: #42171)
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
687 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
693 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
696 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
700 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
706 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
709 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
710 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
711 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
715 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
718 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
723 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
726 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
727 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
729 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
730 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
734 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
740 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
746 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
748 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
749 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
753 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
756 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
757 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
759 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
763 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
766 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
767 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
768 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
772 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
775 things if CDPATH is set.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
779 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
785 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
788 seems to make sense for the transition.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
795 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
800 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
803 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
804 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
811 that version. (Closes: #40589)
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
815 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
817 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
818 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
819 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
820 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
821 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
825 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
831 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
834 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
835 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
836 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
837 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
838 * debhelper.1: documented this.
839 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
840 current compatability level is equal to that number.
841 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
842 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
843 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
848 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
850 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
851 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
852 * README: mention doc/v2
853 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
854 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
858 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
860 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
861 be using this script RSN.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
865 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
868 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
869 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
870 more than 1 init script.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
874 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
877 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
881 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Changed perl version detection.
884 * Changed call to find.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
888 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
891 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
893 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
898 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Really include dh_installpam.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
904 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
907 * Wrote man page for same.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
911 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
914 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
915 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
920 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
927 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
930 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
931 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
932 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
937 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
940 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
941 well. (Closes: 38900)
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
945 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
948 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
949 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
953 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
959 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
966 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
972 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
974 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
975 help from Julian Gilbey.
976 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
977 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
978 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
979 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
980 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
981 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
982 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
987 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
993 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
995 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1000 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1006 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1012 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1015 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1019 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1022 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1026 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1029 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1033 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1039 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1042 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1052 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1058 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1061 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1062 may be deleted. (#35845)
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1066 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Various man page enhancements.
1069 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1074 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1077 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1078 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1082 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1085 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1086 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1087 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1089 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1090 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1095 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1101 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Another very minor typo fix.
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1107 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Very minor typo fix.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1113 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1116 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1117 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1121 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1127 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1130 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1131 variables properly (#34850).
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1135 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1141 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1144 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1145 (automatically generated by build process).
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1149 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1151 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1155 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1158 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1159 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1161 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1165 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1168 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1172 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * README: minor typo fix.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1178 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1181 leave it at that. :-)
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1185 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1191 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1197 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1200 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1201 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1202 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1206 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1209 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1213 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1216 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1220 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1223 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1224 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1225 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1226 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1230 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1233 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1234 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1235 Craig Small for spotting this.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1239 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1242 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1243 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1247 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1253 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1256 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1260 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1262 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1263 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1264 working on the last version of debhelper.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1268 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1271 being made. (#23255)
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1275 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1281 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1284 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1288 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1291 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1292 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1293 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1294 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1298 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1301 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1302 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1303 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1304 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1306 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1307 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1309 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1314 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1320 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1326 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1329 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1330 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1331 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1332 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1333 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1334 suidregister actually supports it.
1335 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1336 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1340 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1347 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1350 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1351 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1352 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1353 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1354 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1355 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1356 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1360 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1362 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1363 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1367 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1370 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1371 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1372 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1373 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1377 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1380 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1382 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1383 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1384 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1385 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1386 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1387 effect, either. (#30118)
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1391 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1397 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1400 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1401 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1405 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1411 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1414 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1415 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1416 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1417 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1421 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1424 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1425 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1429 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1435 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1438 packages, painlessly.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1442 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1448 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1454 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1460 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * The perl conversion is complete.
1464 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1466 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1467 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1468 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1473 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1476 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1477 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1478 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1482 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1485 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1487 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1489 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1490 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1494 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1497 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1498 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1502 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1508 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1511 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1512 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1513 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1514 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1515 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1519 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1522 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1523 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1524 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1525 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1529 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1532 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1536 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1539 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1540 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1541 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1542 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1543 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1544 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1545 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1546 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1550 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1556 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1559 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1560 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1561 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1566 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1569 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1576 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1580 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1583 sections of shared libraries.
1584 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1585 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1586 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1587 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1588 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1589 things you don't want them to.
1590 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1591 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1595 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1598 shared libraries. (#26414)
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1602 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1604 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1605 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1606 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1607 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1611 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1615 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1617 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1618 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1619 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1620 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1621 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1625 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1628 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1632 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1635 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1636 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1641 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1644 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1648 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1651 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1652 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1653 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1654 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1655 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1657 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1658 remove debian/files properly.
1659 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1660 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1661 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1662 * Removed bogus menu file.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1666 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1669 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1673 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1676 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1677 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1678 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1679 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1680 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1681 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1685 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1688 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1689 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1690 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1691 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1695 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1702 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1705 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1706 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1708 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1709 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1710 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1711 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1712 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1713 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1717 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1720 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1721 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1722 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1723 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1724 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1725 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1726 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1727 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1728 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1729 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1730 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1731 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1732 passed any switches.
1733 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1737 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1740 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1741 at all for a long while.
1742 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1743 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1744 large chunks in the process.
1745 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1746 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1747 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1752 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1755 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1757 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1762 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1765 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1766 that don't always have the same files in them.
1767 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1768 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1769 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1773 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1777 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1778 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1779 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1780 updating 27 man pages.
1781 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1782 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1783 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1784 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1785 programs act on. (#25247)
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1789 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1793 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1794 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1795 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1796 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1797 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1798 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1803 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1810 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1817 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1820 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1824 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1830 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1833 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1834 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1835 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1836 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1837 package by accident.
1838 * Is version 1.0 next?
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1842 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1845 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1846 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1850 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1853 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1854 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1855 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1856 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1857 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1859 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1864 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1867 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1868 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1872 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1875 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1879 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1882 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1883 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1888 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1894 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1897 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1898 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1903 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1909 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1912 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1913 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1914 past week. Thanks, guys!
1916 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1917 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1918 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1919 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1920 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1921 would do in the same situation.
1922 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1923 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1925 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1927 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1928 permissions changed.
1929 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1930 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1931 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1932 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1933 files are treated identically.
1934 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1935 * Minor man page fixes.
1936 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1937 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1938 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1942 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1945 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1946 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1947 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1948 use -X multiple times, too.
1949 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1950 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1954 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1957 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1958 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1962 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1965 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1969 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1972 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1973 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1974 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1975 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1976 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1977 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1978 shape if you're starting a new package.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1982 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1985 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1989 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1992 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1993 because of missing symlinks.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1997 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2003 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2006 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2007 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2008 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2009 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2010 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2012 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2013 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2017 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2019 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2020 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2021 to be changed after the fact :-)
2022 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2026 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2029 no version string after the -V.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2033 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2035 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2036 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2041 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2044 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2048 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2051 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2052 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2053 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2054 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2055 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2056 I always welcome corrections!
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2060 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2066 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2069 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2070 * Documented this new switch.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2074 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2077 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2078 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2079 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2080 no packages use the old behavior.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2084 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2087 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2088 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2092 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2095 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2099 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2105 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2108 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2112 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2115 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2116 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2117 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2121 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2127 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2130 into the source package by accident.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2134 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2137 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2138 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2139 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2140 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2141 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2142 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2147 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2151 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2152 inspired to implement some of it.
2153 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2157 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2160 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2164 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2167 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2168 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2172 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2175 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2176 have done.) (#17598)
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2180 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2186 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2192 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2195 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2199 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2202 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2203 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2207 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2210 argument processor in perl.
2211 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2212 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2213 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2214 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2218 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2221 type directories. (#16933)
2222 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2223 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2224 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2225 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2226 are supported. (#16935)
2227 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2232 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2235 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2239 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2243 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2244 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2245 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2246 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2247 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2248 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2252 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2255 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2256 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2258 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2259 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2260 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2261 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2262 a given package, or -i or -a.
2263 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2264 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2265 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2266 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2267 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2268 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2269 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2270 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2271 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2273 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2274 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2275 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2279 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2282 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2283 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2288 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2291 does not have a section.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2295 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2298 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2299 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2300 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2304 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Fixed typo #16215.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2310 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2313 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2314 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2315 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2316 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2317 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2322 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2325 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2326 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2327 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2332 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2338 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2344 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2347 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2348 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2349 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2350 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2351 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2352 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2356 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2362 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2365 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2369 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2372 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2373 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2374 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2378 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2381 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2385 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2391 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2394 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2398 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2401 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2405 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2411 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2414 postinst, postrm, etc.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2418 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2424 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2427 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2428 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2429 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2430 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2431 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2435 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2438 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2439 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2443 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2446 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2450 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2453 installing package files into.
2454 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2459 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2463 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2467 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2473 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2476 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2480 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2483 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2484 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2485 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2486 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2490 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2492 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2493 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2494 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2495 multiple binary packages.
2496 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2497 should rebuild them with this version.
2498 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2502 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2505 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2509 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2512 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2516 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2519 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2520 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2521 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2522 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2523 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2524 debian/README.debian.
2525 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2526 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2527 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2528 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2529 in a few situations.)
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2533 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2539 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2545 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2548 * Fixed several man pages.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2552 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2555 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2556 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2560 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2563 is ready for general use.
2564 * Added man pages for all commands.
2565 * Multiple binary package support.
2566 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2567 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2568 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2570 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2571 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2572 auto-installed as parameters.
2573 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2575 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2578 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2579 the package build directory it is to act on.
2580 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2581 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2582 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2586 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2588 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2589 ready to replace debstd.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400