1 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
5 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
6 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
7 followed. Closes: #85483
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
11 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
13 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
14 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
15 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
19 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
22 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
23 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
24 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
25 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
26 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
27 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
28 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
29 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
30 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
31 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
32 Closes: #88464, #77743
33 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
34 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
35 us to deal with that gracefully.
36 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
38 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
39 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
40 a while, Closes: #51225
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
44 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
50 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
53 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
57 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
61 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
66 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
69 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
70 don't make packlist files.
71 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
72 debhelper coding standards.
73 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
74 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
78 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
81 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
85 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
88 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
89 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
90 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
91 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
92 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
93 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
94 but is mildly deprecated.
95 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
96 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
97 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
98 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
99 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
100 switching to statoverrides..
101 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
102 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
103 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
104 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
105 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
106 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
108 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
109 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
110 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
111 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
112 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
113 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
114 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
115 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
116 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
118 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
119 variable names, pod man pages).
120 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
121 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
122 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
123 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
124 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
125 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
126 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
130 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
136 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
143 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
146 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
150 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
152 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
153 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
154 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
158 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
160 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
161 they were previously ignored.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
165 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
167 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
168 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
172 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
174 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
175 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
176 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
180 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
182 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
186 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
188 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
189 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
193 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
195 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
196 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
197 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
198 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
199 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
200 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
201 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
202 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
203 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
204 it is an obsolete program.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
208 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
210 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
214 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
218 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
220 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
224 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
226 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
228 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
230 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
234 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
240 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
242 * typo: Closes, #78567
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
246 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
252 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
258 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
260 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
261 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
262 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
263 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
264 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
265 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
269 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
272 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
277 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
280 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
281 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
282 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
283 backwards-compatability.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
287 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
289 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
290 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
291 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
292 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
293 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
294 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
295 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
297 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
298 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
299 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
301 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
303 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
304 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
305 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
306 should now be raised to severity important..
307 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
308 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
312 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
315 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
320 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Typo, Closes: #77441
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
326 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Completed the fix from the last version.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
332 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
338 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
340 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
345 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
347 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
348 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
349 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
350 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
351 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
355 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
361 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
364 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
365 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
366 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
367 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
368 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
369 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
374 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
377 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
381 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
387 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
390 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
395 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
398 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
399 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
400 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
401 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
405 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
409 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
412 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
415 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
416 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
419 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
421 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
422 the TODO entry about it.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
426 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
433 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
436 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
437 prevent that. Closes: #73052
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
441 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Typo, Closes: #72932
444 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
445 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
446 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
447 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
451 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
457 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
464 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
467 (this appears to be logal).
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
471 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
474 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
475 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
476 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
477 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
481 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
487 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
489 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
490 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
491 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
492 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
493 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
497 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
503 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
506 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
510 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
517 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
520 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
521 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
522 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
527 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
534 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
540 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
542 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
543 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
544 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
545 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
546 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
547 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
548 notice until v2 is complete.
549 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
550 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
551 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
552 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
553 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
554 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
556 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
557 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
558 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
559 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
569 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
576 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
579 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
583 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
590 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
593 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
594 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
595 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
596 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
601 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
604 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
605 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
606 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
611 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
614 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
615 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
619 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
622 just skip files that end in -\d+.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
626 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
629 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
633 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
640 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
642 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
643 depend on the build and install targets.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
647 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
650 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
654 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
661 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
667 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
673 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
676 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
677 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
678 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
679 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
680 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
681 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
683 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
684 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
685 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
686 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
687 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
688 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
689 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
693 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
699 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
705 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
708 right place. Closes: #55065
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
712 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
719 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Make all examples rules files executable.
722 * Copyright date updates.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
726 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
729 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
734 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
740 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
747 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
753 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
759 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
765 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
768 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
769 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
770 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
771 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
772 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
773 bits until all files have been registered.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
777 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_installmanpages:
780 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
781 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
782 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
783 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
784 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
785 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
786 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
787 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
788 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
789 otherwise change the result at all.
791 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
792 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
793 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
794 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
795 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
800 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
806 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
809 act on files that don't exist.
810 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
811 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
812 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
814 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
815 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
816 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
817 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
821 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
827 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
833 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
836 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
840 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
843 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
845 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
846 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
847 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
851 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
854 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
855 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
856 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
857 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
858 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
859 does not compress. Closes: #41733
860 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
862 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
864 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
868 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
875 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
881 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
887 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
890 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
894 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
900 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
906 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
909 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
910 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
911 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
912 I made some changes, though:
913 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
914 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
915 that is a clear violation of policy.
916 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
917 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
918 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
919 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
920 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
921 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
922 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
923 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
924 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
926 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
930 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
936 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
939 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
943 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
946 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
947 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
952 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
954 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
958 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
965 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
968 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
969 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
970 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
971 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
972 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
973 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
974 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
978 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
984 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
988 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
989 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
993 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
999 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1002 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1006 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1009 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1010 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1014 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1016 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1021 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1025 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1029 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1032 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1033 for the dependancies to be generated.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1037 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1040 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1044 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1047 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1048 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1049 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1057 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1058 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1062 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1068 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1074 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1077 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1087 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1090 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1091 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1092 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1093 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1094 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1095 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1096 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1097 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1098 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1099 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1100 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1101 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1105 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1108 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1109 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1111 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1112 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1113 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1114 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1115 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1116 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1118 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1119 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1126 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1137 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1140 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1145 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1148 for building debhelper.
1149 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1153 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1160 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1163 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1167 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1170 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1171 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1172 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1173 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1174 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1175 it's always available.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1179 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1182 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1183 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1184 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1188 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1191 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1192 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1196 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1202 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1205 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1215 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1218 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1219 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1220 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1224 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1227 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1235 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1236 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1238 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1239 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1243 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1249 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1255 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1258 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1262 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1265 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1266 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1268 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1272 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1275 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1276 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1277 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1284 things if CDPATH is set.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1294 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1297 seems to make sense for the transition.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1301 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1304 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1312 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1313 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1317 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1320 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1324 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1327 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1328 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1329 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1330 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1334 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1340 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1343 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1344 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1345 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1346 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1347 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1348 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1349 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1350 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1351 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1352 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1357 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1360 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1361 * README: mention doc/v2
1362 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1363 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1367 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1369 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1370 be using this script RSN.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1374 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1377 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1378 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1379 more than 1 init script.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1383 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1386 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1390 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Changed perl version detection.
1393 * Changed call to find.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1397 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1400 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1402 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1407 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Really include dh_installpam.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1413 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1416 * Wrote man page for same.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1420 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1423 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1424 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1429 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1436 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1439 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1440 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1441 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1442 x bit was being set!
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1446 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1449 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1450 well. (Closes: 38900)
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1454 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1457 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1458 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1462 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1468 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1475 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1481 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1484 help from Julian Gilbey.
1485 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1486 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1487 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1488 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1489 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1490 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1491 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1496 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1502 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1509 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1515 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1521 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1524 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1528 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1531 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1535 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1538 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1542 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1548 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1551 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1555 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1561 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1567 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1570 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1571 may be deleted. (#35845)
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1575 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Various man page enhancements.
1578 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1583 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1586 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1587 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1591 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1594 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1595 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1596 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1598 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1599 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1604 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1610 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Another very minor typo fix.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1616 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Very minor typo fix.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1622 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1625 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1626 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1630 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1636 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1639 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1640 variables properly (#34850).
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1644 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1650 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1653 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1654 (automatically generated by build process).
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1658 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1660 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1664 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1667 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1668 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1670 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1674 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1677 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1681 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * README: minor typo fix.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1687 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1690 leave it at that. :-)
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1694 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1700 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1709 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1710 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1711 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1715 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1718 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1722 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1725 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1729 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1732 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1733 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1734 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1735 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1739 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1742 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1743 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1744 Craig Small for spotting this.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1748 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1751 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1752 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1756 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1762 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1765 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1769 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1771 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1772 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1773 working on the last version of debhelper.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1777 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1780 being made. (#23255)
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1784 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1790 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1793 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1797 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1800 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1801 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1802 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1803 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1807 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1810 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1811 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1812 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1813 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1815 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1816 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1818 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1823 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1829 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1835 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1838 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1839 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1840 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1841 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1842 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1843 suidregister actually supports it.
1844 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1845 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1849 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1856 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1859 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1860 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1861 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1862 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1863 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1864 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1865 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1869 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1871 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1872 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1876 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1879 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1880 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1881 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1882 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1886 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1889 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1891 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1892 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1893 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1894 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1895 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1896 effect, either. (#30118)
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1900 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1906 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1909 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1910 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1914 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1920 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1923 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1924 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1925 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1926 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1930 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1933 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1934 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1938 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1944 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1947 packages, painlessly.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1951 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1957 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1963 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1969 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * The perl conversion is complete.
1973 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1975 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1976 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1977 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1982 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1985 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1986 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1987 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1991 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1994 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1996 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1998 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1999 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2003 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2006 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2007 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2011 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2017 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2020 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2021 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2022 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2023 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2024 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2028 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2031 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2032 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2033 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2034 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2038 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2041 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2045 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2048 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2049 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2050 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2051 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2052 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2053 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2054 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2055 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2059 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2065 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2068 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2069 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2070 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2075 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2078 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2082 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2085 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2089 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2092 sections of shared libraries.
2093 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2094 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2095 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2096 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2097 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2098 things you don't want them to.
2099 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2100 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2104 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2107 shared libraries. (#26414)
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2111 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2113 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2114 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2115 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2116 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2120 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2124 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2126 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2127 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2128 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2129 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2130 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2134 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2137 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2141 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2144 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2145 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2150 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2153 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2157 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2160 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2161 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2162 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2163 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2164 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2166 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2167 remove debian/files properly.
2168 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2169 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2170 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2171 * Removed bogus menu file.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2175 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2178 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2182 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2185 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2186 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2187 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2188 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2189 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2190 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2194 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2197 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2198 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2199 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2200 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2204 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2211 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2214 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2215 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2217 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2218 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2219 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2220 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2221 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2222 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2226 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2229 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2230 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2231 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2232 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2233 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2234 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2235 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2236 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2237 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2238 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2239 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2240 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2241 passed any switches.
2242 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2246 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2249 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2250 at all for a long while.
2251 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2252 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2253 large chunks in the process.
2254 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2255 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2256 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2261 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2264 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2266 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2271 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2274 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2275 that don't always have the same files in them.
2276 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2277 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2278 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2282 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2286 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2287 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2288 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2289 updating 27 man pages.
2290 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2291 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2292 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2293 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2294 programs act on. (#25247)
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2298 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2302 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2303 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2304 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2305 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2306 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2307 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2312 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2319 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2326 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2329 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2333 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2339 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2342 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2343 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2344 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2345 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2346 package by accident.
2347 * Is version 1.0 next?
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2351 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2354 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2355 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2359 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2362 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2363 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2364 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2365 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2366 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2368 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2373 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2376 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2377 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2381 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2384 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2388 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2391 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2392 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2397 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2403 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2406 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2407 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2412 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2418 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2421 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2422 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2423 past week. Thanks, guys!
2425 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2426 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2427 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2428 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2429 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2430 would do in the same situation.
2431 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2432 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2434 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2436 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2437 permissions changed.
2438 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2439 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2440 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2441 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2442 files are treated identically.
2443 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2444 * Minor man page fixes.
2445 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2446 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2447 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2451 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2454 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2455 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2456 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2457 use -X multiple times, too.
2458 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2459 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2463 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2466 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2467 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2471 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2474 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2478 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2481 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2482 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2483 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2484 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2485 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2486 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2487 shape if you're starting a new package.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2491 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2494 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2498 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2501 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2502 because of missing symlinks.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2506 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2512 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2515 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2516 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2517 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2518 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2519 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2521 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2522 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2526 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2528 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2529 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2530 to be changed after the fact :-)
2531 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2535 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2538 no version string after the -V.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2542 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2544 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2545 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2550 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2553 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2557 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2560 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2561 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2562 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2563 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2564 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2565 I always welcome corrections!
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2569 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2575 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2578 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2579 * Documented this new switch.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2583 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2586 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2587 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2588 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2589 no packages use the old behavior.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2593 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2596 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2597 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2601 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2604 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2608 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2614 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2617 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2621 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2624 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2625 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2626 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2630 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2636 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2639 into the source package by accident.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2643 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2646 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2647 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2648 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2649 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2650 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2651 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2656 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2660 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2661 inspired to implement some of it.
2662 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2666 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2669 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2673 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2676 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2677 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2681 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2684 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2685 have done.) (#17598)
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2689 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2695 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2701 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2704 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2708 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2711 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2712 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2716 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2719 argument processor in perl.
2720 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2721 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2722 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2723 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2727 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2730 type directories. (#16933)
2731 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2732 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2733 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2734 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2735 are supported. (#16935)
2736 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2741 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2744 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2748 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2752 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2753 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2754 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2755 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2756 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2757 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2761 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2764 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2765 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2767 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2768 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2769 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2770 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2771 a given package, or -i or -a.
2772 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2773 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2774 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2775 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2776 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2777 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2778 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2779 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2780 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2782 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2783 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2784 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2788 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2791 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2792 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2797 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2800 does not have a section.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2804 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2807 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2808 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2809 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2813 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Fixed typo #16215.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2819 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2822 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2823 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2824 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2825 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2826 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2831 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2834 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2835 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2836 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2841 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2847 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2853 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2856 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2857 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2858 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2859 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2860 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2861 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2865 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2871 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2874 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2878 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2881 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2882 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2883 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2887 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2890 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2894 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2900 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2903 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2907 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2910 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2914 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2920 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2923 postinst, postrm, etc.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2927 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2933 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2936 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2937 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2938 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2939 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2940 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2944 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2947 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2948 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2952 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2955 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2959 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2962 installing package files into.
2963 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2968 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2972 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2976 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2982 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2985 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2989 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2992 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2993 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2994 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2995 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2999 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3001 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3002 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3003 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3004 multiple binary packages.
3005 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3006 should rebuild them with this version.
3007 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3011 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3014 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3018 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3021 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3025 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3028 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3029 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3030 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3031 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3032 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3033 debian/README.debian.
3034 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3035 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3036 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3037 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3038 in a few situations.)
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3042 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3048 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3054 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3057 * Fixed several man pages.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3061 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3064 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3065 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3069 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3072 is ready for general use.
3073 * Added man pages for all commands.
3074 * Multiple binary package support.
3075 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3076 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3077 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3079 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3080 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3081 auto-installed as parameters.
3082 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3084 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3087 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3088 the package build directory it is to act on.
3089 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3090 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3091 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3095 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3097 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3098 ready to replace debstd.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400