1 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
5 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
6 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
7 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
11 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
17 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
20 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
21 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
22 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
23 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
24 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
25 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
30 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
33 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
37 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
43 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
46 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
51 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
54 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
55 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
56 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
57 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
61 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
65 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
68 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
71 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
72 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
75 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
77 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
78 the TODO entry about it.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
82 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
89 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
92 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
93 prevent that. Closes: #73052
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
97 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Typo, Closes: #72932
100 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
101 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
102 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
103 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
107 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
113 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
120 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
123 (this appears to be logal).
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
127 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
130 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
131 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
132 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
133 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
137 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
143 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
145 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
146 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
147 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
148 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
149 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
153 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
155 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
159 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
162 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
166 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
173 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
176 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
177 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
178 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
183 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
190 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
196 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
198 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
199 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
200 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
201 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
202 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
203 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
204 notice until v2 is complete.
205 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
206 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
207 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
208 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
209 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
210 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
212 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
213 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
214 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
215 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
219 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
225 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
232 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
235 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
239 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
246 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
249 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
250 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
251 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
252 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
257 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
260 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
261 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
262 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
270 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
271 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
275 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
278 just skip files that end in -\d+.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
282 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
285 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
289 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
296 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
298 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
299 depend on the build and install targets.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
303 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
306 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
310 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
317 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
323 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
329 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
332 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
333 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
334 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
335 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
336 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
337 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
339 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
340 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
341 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
342 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
343 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
344 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
345 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
349 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
355 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
361 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
364 right place. Closes: #55065
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
368 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
375 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Make all examples rules files executable.
378 * Copyright date updates.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
382 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
385 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
390 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
396 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
403 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
409 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
415 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
421 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
424 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
425 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
426 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
427 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
428 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
429 bits until all files have been registered.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
433 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_installmanpages:
436 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
437 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
438 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
439 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
440 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
441 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
442 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
443 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
444 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
445 otherwise change the result at all.
447 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
448 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
449 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
450 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
451 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
456 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
462 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
465 act on files that don't exist.
466 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
467 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
468 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
470 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
471 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
472 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
473 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
477 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
483 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
489 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
492 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
496 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
499 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
501 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
502 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
503 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
507 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
510 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
511 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
512 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
513 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
514 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
515 does not compress. Closes: #41733
516 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
518 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
520 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
524 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
531 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
537 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
543 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
546 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
550 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
556 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
562 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
565 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
566 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
567 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
568 I made some changes, though:
569 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
570 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
571 that is a clear violation of policy.
572 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
573 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
574 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
575 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
576 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
577 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
578 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
579 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
580 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
582 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
586 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
592 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
595 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
599 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
602 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
603 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
608 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
614 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
621 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
624 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
625 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
626 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
627 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
628 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
629 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
630 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
634 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
640 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
644 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
645 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
655 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
658 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
662 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
665 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
666 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
670 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
672 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
677 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
681 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
685 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
687 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
688 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
689 for the dependancies to be generated.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
693 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
696 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
700 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
703 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
704 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
705 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
710 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
713 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
714 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
718 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
724 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
730 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
733 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
737 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
743 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
745 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
746 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
747 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
748 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
749 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
750 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
751 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
752 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
753 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
754 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
755 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
756 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
757 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
761 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
763 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
764 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
765 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
767 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
768 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
769 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
770 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
771 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
772 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
774 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
775 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
779 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
782 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
793 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
795 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
796 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
804 for building debhelper.
805 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
809 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
816 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Fixed makefile commit target.
819 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
826 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
827 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
828 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
829 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
830 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
831 it's always available.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
835 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
838 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
839 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
840 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
844 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
847 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
848 modules. (Closes: #42171)
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
852 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
858 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
861 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
865 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
871 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
874 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
875 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
876 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
880 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
883 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
888 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
891 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
892 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
894 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
895 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
899 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
905 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
911 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
913 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
914 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
918 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
921 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
922 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
924 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
928 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
931 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
932 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
933 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
937 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
940 things if CDPATH is set.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
944 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
950 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
953 seems to make sense for the transition.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
957 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
960 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
965 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
968 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
969 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
973 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
976 that version. (Closes: #40589)
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
980 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
982 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
983 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
984 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
985 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
986 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
990 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
999 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1000 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1001 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1002 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1003 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1004 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1005 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1006 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1007 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1008 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1013 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1016 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1017 * README: mention doc/v2
1018 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1019 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1023 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1025 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1026 be using this script RSN.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1030 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1033 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1034 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1035 more than 1 init script.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1039 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1042 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Changed perl version detection.
1049 * Changed call to find.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1053 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1056 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1058 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1063 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Really include dh_installpam.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1069 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1072 * Wrote man page for same.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1076 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1079 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1080 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1085 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1092 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1095 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1096 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1097 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1098 x bit was being set!
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1102 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1105 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1106 well. (Closes: 38900)
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1110 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1113 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1114 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1118 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1124 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1131 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1137 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1140 help from Julian Gilbey.
1141 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1142 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1143 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1144 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1145 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1146 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1147 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1152 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1158 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1165 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1171 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1177 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1180 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1184 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1187 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1191 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1194 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1198 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1204 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1207 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1211 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1217 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1223 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1226 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1227 may be deleted. (#35845)
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1231 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Various man page enhancements.
1234 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1239 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1242 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1243 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1247 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1250 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1251 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1252 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1254 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1255 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1260 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1266 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Another very minor typo fix.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1272 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Very minor typo fix.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1278 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1281 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1282 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1286 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1292 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1295 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1296 variables properly (#34850).
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1300 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1306 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1309 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1310 (automatically generated by build process).
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1314 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1316 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1320 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1323 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1324 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1326 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1330 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1333 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1337 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * README: minor typo fix.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1343 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1346 leave it at that. :-)
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1350 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1356 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1362 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1365 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1366 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1367 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1371 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1374 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1378 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1381 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1385 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1388 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1389 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1390 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1391 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1395 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1398 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1399 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1400 Craig Small for spotting this.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1404 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1407 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1408 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1412 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1418 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1421 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1425 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1427 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1428 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1429 working on the last version of debhelper.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1433 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1436 being made. (#23255)
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1440 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1446 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1449 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1453 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1456 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1457 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1458 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1459 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1463 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1466 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1467 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1468 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1469 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1471 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1472 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1474 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1479 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1485 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1491 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1494 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1495 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1496 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1497 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1498 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1499 suidregister actually supports it.
1500 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1501 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1505 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1512 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1515 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1516 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1517 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1518 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1519 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1520 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1521 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1525 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1527 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1528 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1532 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1535 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1536 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1537 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1538 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1542 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1545 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1547 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1548 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1549 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1550 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1551 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1552 effect, either. (#30118)
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1556 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1562 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1565 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1566 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1570 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1576 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1579 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1580 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1581 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1582 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1586 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1589 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1590 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1594 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1600 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1603 packages, painlessly.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1607 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1613 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1619 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1625 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * The perl conversion is complete.
1629 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1631 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1632 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1633 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1638 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1641 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1642 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1643 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1647 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1650 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1652 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1654 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1655 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1659 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1662 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1663 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1667 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1673 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1676 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1677 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1678 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1679 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1680 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1684 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1687 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1688 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1689 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1690 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1694 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1697 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1701 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1704 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1705 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1706 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1707 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1708 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1709 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1710 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1711 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1715 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1721 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1724 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1725 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1726 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1731 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1734 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1738 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1741 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1745 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1748 sections of shared libraries.
1749 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1750 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1751 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1752 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1753 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1754 things you don't want them to.
1755 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1756 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1760 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1763 shared libraries. (#26414)
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1767 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1769 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1770 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1771 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1772 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1776 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1780 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1782 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1783 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1784 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1785 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1786 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1793 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1797 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1800 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1801 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1806 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1809 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1813 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1816 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1817 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1818 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1819 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1820 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1822 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1823 remove debian/files properly.
1824 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1825 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1826 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1827 * Removed bogus menu file.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1831 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1834 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1838 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1841 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1842 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1843 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1844 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1845 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1846 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1850 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1853 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1854 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1855 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1856 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1860 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1867 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1870 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1871 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1873 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1874 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1875 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1876 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1877 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1878 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1882 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1885 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1886 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1887 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1888 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1889 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1890 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1891 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1892 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1893 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1894 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1895 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1896 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1897 passed any switches.
1898 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1902 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1905 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1906 at all for a long while.
1907 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1908 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1909 large chunks in the process.
1910 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1911 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1912 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1917 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1920 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1922 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1927 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1930 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1931 that don't always have the same files in them.
1932 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1933 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1934 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1938 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1942 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1943 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1944 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1945 updating 27 man pages.
1946 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1947 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1948 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1949 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1950 programs act on. (#25247)
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1954 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1958 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1959 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1960 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1961 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1962 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1963 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1968 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1975 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1982 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1985 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1989 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1995 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1998 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1999 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2000 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2001 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2002 package by accident.
2003 * Is version 1.0 next?
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2007 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2010 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2011 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2015 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2018 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2019 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2020 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2021 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2022 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2024 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2029 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2032 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2033 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2037 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2040 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2044 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2047 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2048 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2053 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2059 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2062 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2063 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2068 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2074 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2077 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2078 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2079 past week. Thanks, guys!
2081 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2082 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2083 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2084 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2085 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2086 would do in the same situation.
2087 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2088 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2090 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2092 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2093 permissions changed.
2094 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2095 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2096 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2097 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2098 files are treated identically.
2099 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2100 * Minor man page fixes.
2101 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2102 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2103 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2107 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2110 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2111 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2112 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2113 use -X multiple times, too.
2114 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2115 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2119 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2122 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2123 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2127 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2130 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2134 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2137 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2138 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2139 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2140 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2141 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2142 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2143 shape if you're starting a new package.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2147 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2150 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2154 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2157 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2158 because of missing symlinks.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2162 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2168 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2171 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2172 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2173 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2174 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2175 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2177 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2178 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2182 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2184 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2185 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2186 to be changed after the fact :-)
2187 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2191 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2194 no version string after the -V.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2198 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2200 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2201 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2206 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2209 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2213 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2216 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2217 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2218 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2219 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2220 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2221 I always welcome corrections!
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2225 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2231 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2234 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2235 * Documented this new switch.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2239 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2242 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2243 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2244 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2245 no packages use the old behavior.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2249 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2252 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2253 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2257 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2260 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2264 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2270 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2273 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2277 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2280 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2281 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2282 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2286 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2292 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2295 into the source package by accident.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2299 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2302 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2303 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2304 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2305 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2306 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2307 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2312 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2316 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2317 inspired to implement some of it.
2318 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2322 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2325 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2329 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2332 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2333 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2337 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2340 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2341 have done.) (#17598)
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2345 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2351 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2357 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2360 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2364 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2367 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2368 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2372 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2375 argument processor in perl.
2376 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2377 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2378 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2379 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2383 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2386 type directories. (#16933)
2387 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2388 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2389 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2390 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2391 are supported. (#16935)
2392 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2397 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2400 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2404 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2408 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2409 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2410 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2411 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2412 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2413 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2417 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2420 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2421 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2423 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2424 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2425 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2426 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2427 a given package, or -i or -a.
2428 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2429 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2430 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2431 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2432 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2433 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2434 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2435 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2436 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2438 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2439 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2440 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2444 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2447 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2448 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2453 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2456 does not have a section.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2460 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2463 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2464 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2465 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2469 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Fixed typo #16215.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2475 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2478 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2479 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2480 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2481 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2482 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2487 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2490 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2491 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2492 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2497 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2503 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2509 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2512 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2513 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2514 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2515 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2516 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2517 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2521 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2527 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2530 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2534 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2537 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2538 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2539 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2543 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2546 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2550 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2556 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2559 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2563 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2566 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2570 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2576 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2579 postinst, postrm, etc.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2583 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2589 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2592 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2593 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2594 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2595 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2596 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2600 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2603 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2604 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2608 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2611 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2615 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2618 installing package files into.
2619 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2624 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2628 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2632 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2638 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2641 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2645 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2648 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2649 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2650 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2651 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2655 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2657 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2658 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2659 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2660 multiple binary packages.
2661 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2662 should rebuild them with this version.
2663 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2667 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2670 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2674 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2677 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2681 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2684 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2685 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2686 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2687 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2688 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2689 debian/README.debian.
2690 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2691 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2692 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2693 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2694 in a few situations.)
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2698 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2704 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2710 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2713 * Fixed several man pages.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2717 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2720 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2721 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2725 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2728 is ready for general use.
2729 * Added man pages for all commands.
2730 * Multiple binary package support.
2731 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2732 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2733 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2735 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2736 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2737 auto-installed as parameters.
2738 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2740 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2743 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2744 the package build directory it is to act on.
2745 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2746 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2747 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2751 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2753 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2754 ready to replace debstd.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400