1 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
7 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
13 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
15 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
16 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
17 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
18 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
19 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
20 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
24 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
27 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
32 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
35 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
36 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
37 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
38 backwards-compatability.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
42 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
44 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
45 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
46 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
47 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
48 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
49 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
50 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
52 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
53 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
54 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
56 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
58 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
59 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
60 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
61 should now be raised to severity important..
62 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
63 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
67 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
70 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
75 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Typo, Closes: #77441
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
81 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Completed the fix from the last version.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
87 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
93 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
95 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
100 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
103 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
104 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
105 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
106 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
110 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
116 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
119 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
120 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
121 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
122 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
123 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
124 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
129 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
132 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
136 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
142 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
145 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
150 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
153 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
154 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
155 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
156 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
160 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
164 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
167 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
170 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
171 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
174 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
176 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
177 the TODO entry about it.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
181 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
188 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
191 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
192 prevent that. Closes: #73052
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
196 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Typo, Closes: #72932
199 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
200 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
201 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
202 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
206 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
212 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
219 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
222 (this appears to be logal).
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
226 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
229 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
230 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
231 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
232 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
236 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
238 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
242 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
244 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
245 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
246 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
247 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
248 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
252 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
258 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
261 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
265 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
272 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
275 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
276 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
277 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
282 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
289 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
295 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
297 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
298 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
299 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
300 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
301 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
302 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
303 notice until v2 is complete.
304 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
305 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
306 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
307 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
308 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
309 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
311 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
312 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
313 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
314 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
318 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
324 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
331 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
334 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
338 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
345 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
348 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
349 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
350 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
351 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
356 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
359 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
360 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
361 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
366 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
369 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
370 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
374 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
377 just skip files that end in -\d+.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
381 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
384 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
388 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
395 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
397 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
398 depend on the build and install targets.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
402 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
405 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
409 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
416 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
422 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
428 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
431 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
432 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
433 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
434 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
435 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
436 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
438 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
439 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
440 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
441 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
442 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
443 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
444 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
448 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
454 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
460 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
463 right place. Closes: #55065
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
467 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
474 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Make all examples rules files executable.
477 * Copyright date updates.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
481 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
484 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
489 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
495 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
502 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
508 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
514 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
520 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
523 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
524 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
525 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
526 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
527 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
528 bits until all files have been registered.
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
532 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_installmanpages:
535 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
536 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
537 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
538 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
539 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
540 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
541 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
542 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
543 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
544 otherwise change the result at all.
546 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
547 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
548 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
549 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
550 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
555 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
561 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
564 act on files that don't exist.
565 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
566 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
567 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
569 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
570 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
571 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
572 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
576 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
582 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
588 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
591 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
595 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
598 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
600 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
601 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
602 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
606 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
609 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
610 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
611 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
612 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
613 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
614 does not compress. Closes: #41733
615 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
617 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
619 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
623 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
630 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
636 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
642 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
645 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
655 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
661 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
664 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
665 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
666 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
667 I made some changes, though:
668 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
669 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
670 that is a clear violation of policy.
671 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
672 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
673 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
674 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
675 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
676 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
677 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
678 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
679 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
681 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
685 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
691 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
694 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
698 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
701 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
702 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
707 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
713 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
720 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
723 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
724 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
725 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
726 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
727 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
728 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
729 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
733 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
739 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
743 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
744 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
748 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
754 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
757 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
761 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
764 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
765 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
769 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
771 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
776 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
780 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
784 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
786 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
787 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
788 for the dependancies to be generated.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
795 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
802 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
803 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
804 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
809 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
812 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
813 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
817 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
829 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
832 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
836 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
842 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
844 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
845 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
846 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
847 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
848 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
849 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
850 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
851 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
852 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
853 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
854 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
855 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
856 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
860 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
862 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
863 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
864 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
866 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
867 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
868 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
869 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
870 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
871 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
873 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
874 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
878 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
881 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
885 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
892 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
894 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
895 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
900 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
903 for building debhelper.
904 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
908 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
915 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Fixed makefile commit target.
918 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
922 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
925 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
926 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
927 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
928 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
929 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
930 it's always available.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
934 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
937 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
938 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
939 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
943 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
946 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
947 modules. (Closes: #42171)
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
951 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
957 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
960 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
964 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
970 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
973 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
974 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
975 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
979 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
982 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
987 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
990 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
991 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
993 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
994 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
998 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1004 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1010 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1013 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1017 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1020 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1021 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1023 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1027 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1030 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1031 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1032 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1036 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1039 things if CDPATH is set.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1043 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1049 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1052 seems to make sense for the transition.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1056 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1059 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1064 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1067 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1068 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1072 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1075 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1079 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1082 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1083 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1084 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1085 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1089 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1095 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1098 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1099 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1100 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1101 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1102 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1103 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1104 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1105 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1106 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1107 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1112 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1115 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1116 * README: mention doc/v2
1117 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1118 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1122 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1124 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1125 be using this script RSN.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1129 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1132 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1133 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1134 more than 1 init script.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1138 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1141 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1145 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Changed perl version detection.
1148 * Changed call to find.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1152 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1155 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1157 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1162 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Really include dh_installpam.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1168 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1171 * Wrote man page for same.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1175 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1178 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1179 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1184 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1191 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1194 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1195 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1196 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1197 x bit was being set!
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1201 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1204 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1205 well. (Closes: 38900)
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1209 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1212 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1213 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1217 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1223 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1230 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1236 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1239 help from Julian Gilbey.
1240 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1241 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1242 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1243 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1244 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1245 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1246 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1251 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1257 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1264 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1270 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1276 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1279 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1283 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1286 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1290 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1293 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1297 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1303 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1306 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1310 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1316 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1322 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1325 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1326 may be deleted. (#35845)
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1330 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Various man page enhancements.
1333 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1338 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1341 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1342 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1346 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1349 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1350 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1351 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1353 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1354 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1359 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1365 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Another very minor typo fix.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1371 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Very minor typo fix.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1377 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1380 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1381 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1385 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1391 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1394 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1395 variables properly (#34850).
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1399 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1405 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1408 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1409 (automatically generated by build process).
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1413 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1415 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1419 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1422 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1423 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1425 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1429 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1432 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1436 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * README: minor typo fix.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1442 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1445 leave it at that. :-)
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1449 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1455 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1461 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1464 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1465 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1466 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1470 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1473 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1477 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1480 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1484 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1487 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1488 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1489 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1490 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1494 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1497 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1498 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1499 Craig Small for spotting this.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1503 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1506 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1507 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1511 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1517 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1520 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1524 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1526 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1527 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1528 working on the last version of debhelper.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1532 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1535 being made. (#23255)
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1539 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1545 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1548 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1552 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1555 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1556 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1557 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1558 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1562 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1565 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1566 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1567 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1568 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1570 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1571 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1573 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1578 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1584 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1590 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1593 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1594 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1595 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1596 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1597 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1598 suidregister actually supports it.
1599 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1600 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1604 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1611 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1614 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1615 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1616 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1617 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1618 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1619 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1620 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1624 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1626 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1627 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1631 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1634 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1635 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1636 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1637 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1641 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1644 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1646 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1647 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1648 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1649 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1650 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1651 effect, either. (#30118)
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1655 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1661 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1664 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1665 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1669 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1675 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1678 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1679 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1680 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1681 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1685 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1688 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1689 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1693 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1699 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1702 packages, painlessly.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1712 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1718 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1724 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * The perl conversion is complete.
1728 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1730 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1731 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1732 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1737 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1740 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1741 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1742 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1746 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1749 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1751 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1753 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1754 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1758 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1761 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1762 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1766 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1772 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1775 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1776 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1777 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1778 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1779 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1783 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1786 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1787 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1788 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1789 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1793 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1796 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1800 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1803 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1804 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1805 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1806 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1807 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1808 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1809 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1810 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1814 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1820 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1823 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1824 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1825 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1830 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1833 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1837 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1840 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1844 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1847 sections of shared libraries.
1848 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1849 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1850 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1851 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1852 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1853 things you don't want them to.
1854 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1855 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1859 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1862 shared libraries. (#26414)
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1866 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1868 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1869 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1870 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1871 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1875 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1879 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1881 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1882 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1883 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1884 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1885 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1889 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1892 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1896 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1899 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1900 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1905 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1908 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1912 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1915 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1916 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1917 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1918 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1919 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1921 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1922 remove debian/files properly.
1923 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1924 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1925 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1926 * Removed bogus menu file.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1930 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1933 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1937 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1940 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1941 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1942 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1943 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1944 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1945 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1949 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1952 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1953 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1954 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1955 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1959 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1966 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1969 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1970 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1972 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1973 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1974 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1975 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1976 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1977 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1981 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1984 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1985 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1986 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1987 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1988 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1989 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1990 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1991 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1992 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1993 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1994 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1995 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1996 passed any switches.
1997 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2001 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2004 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2005 at all for a long while.
2006 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2007 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2008 large chunks in the process.
2009 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2010 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2011 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2016 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2019 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2021 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2026 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2029 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2030 that don't always have the same files in them.
2031 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2032 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2033 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2037 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2041 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2042 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2043 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2044 updating 27 man pages.
2045 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2046 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2047 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2048 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2049 programs act on. (#25247)
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2053 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2057 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2058 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2059 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2060 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2061 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2062 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2067 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2074 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2081 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2084 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2088 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2094 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2097 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2098 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2099 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2100 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2101 package by accident.
2102 * Is version 1.0 next?
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2106 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2109 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2110 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2114 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2117 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2118 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2119 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2120 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2121 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2123 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2128 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2131 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2132 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2136 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2139 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2143 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2146 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2147 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2152 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2158 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2161 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2162 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2167 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2173 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2176 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2177 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2178 past week. Thanks, guys!
2180 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2181 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2182 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2183 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2184 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2185 would do in the same situation.
2186 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2187 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2189 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2191 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2192 permissions changed.
2193 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2194 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2195 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2196 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2197 files are treated identically.
2198 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2199 * Minor man page fixes.
2200 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2201 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2202 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2206 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2209 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2210 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2211 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2212 use -X multiple times, too.
2213 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2214 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2218 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2221 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2222 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2226 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2229 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2233 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2236 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2237 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2238 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2239 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2240 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2241 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2242 shape if you're starting a new package.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2246 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2249 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2253 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2256 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2257 because of missing symlinks.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2261 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2267 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2270 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2271 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2272 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2273 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2274 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2276 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2277 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2281 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2283 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2284 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2285 to be changed after the fact :-)
2286 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2290 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2293 no version string after the -V.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2297 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2299 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2300 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2305 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2308 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2312 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2315 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2316 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2317 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2318 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2319 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2320 I always welcome corrections!
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2324 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2330 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2333 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2334 * Documented this new switch.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2338 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2341 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2342 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2343 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2344 no packages use the old behavior.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2348 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2351 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2352 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2356 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2359 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2363 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2369 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2372 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2376 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2379 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2380 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2381 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2385 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2391 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2394 into the source package by accident.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2398 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2401 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2402 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2403 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2404 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2405 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2406 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2411 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2415 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2416 inspired to implement some of it.
2417 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2421 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2424 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2428 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2431 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2432 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2436 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2439 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2440 have done.) (#17598)
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2444 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2450 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2456 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2459 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2463 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2466 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2467 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2471 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2474 argument processor in perl.
2475 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2476 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2477 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2478 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2482 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2485 type directories. (#16933)
2486 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2487 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2488 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2489 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2490 are supported. (#16935)
2491 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2496 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2499 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2503 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2507 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2508 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2509 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2510 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2511 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2512 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2516 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2519 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2520 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2522 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2523 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2524 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2525 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2526 a given package, or -i or -a.
2527 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2528 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2529 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2530 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2531 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2532 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2533 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2534 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2535 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2537 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2538 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2539 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2543 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2546 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2547 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2552 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2555 does not have a section.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2559 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2562 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2563 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2564 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2568 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Fixed typo #16215.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2574 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2577 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2578 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2579 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2580 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2581 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2586 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2589 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2590 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2591 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2596 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2602 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2608 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2611 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2612 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2613 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2614 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2615 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2616 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2620 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2626 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2629 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2633 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2636 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2637 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2638 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2642 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2645 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2649 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2655 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2658 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2662 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2665 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2669 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2675 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2678 postinst, postrm, etc.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2682 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2688 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2691 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2692 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2693 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2694 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2695 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2699 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2702 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2703 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2707 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2710 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2714 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2717 installing package files into.
2718 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2723 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2727 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2731 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2737 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2740 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2744 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2747 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2748 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2749 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2750 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2754 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2756 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2757 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2758 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2759 multiple binary packages.
2760 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2761 should rebuild them with this version.
2762 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2766 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2769 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2773 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2776 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2780 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2783 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2784 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2785 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2786 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2787 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2788 debian/README.debian.
2789 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2790 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2791 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2792 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2793 in a few situations.)
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2797 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2803 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2809 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2812 * Fixed several man pages.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2816 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2819 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2820 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2824 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2827 is ready for general use.
2828 * Added man pages for all commands.
2829 * Multiple binary package support.
2830 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2831 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2832 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2834 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2835 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2836 auto-installed as parameters.
2837 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2839 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2842 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2843 the package build directory it is to act on.
2844 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2845 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2846 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2850 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2852 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2853 ready to replace debstd.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400