1 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
8 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
14 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Typo, Closes: #92407
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
20 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
26 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
32 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
35 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
39 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
42 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
43 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
44 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
45 followed. Closes: #85483
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
49 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
51 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
52 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
53 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
57 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
60 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
61 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
62 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
63 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
64 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
65 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
66 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
67 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
68 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
69 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
70 Closes: #88464, #77743
71 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
72 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
73 us to deal with that gracefully.
74 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
76 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
77 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
78 a while, Closes: #51225
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
82 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
88 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
91 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
95 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
99 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
104 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
107 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
108 don't make packlist files.
109 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
110 debhelper coding standards.
111 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
112 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
116 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
119 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
123 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
126 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
127 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
128 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
129 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
130 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
131 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
132 but is mildly deprecated.
133 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
134 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
135 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
136 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
137 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
138 switching to statoverrides..
139 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
140 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
141 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
142 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
143 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
144 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
146 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
147 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
148 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
149 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
150 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
151 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
152 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
153 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
154 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
156 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
157 variable names, pod man pages).
158 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
159 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
160 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
161 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
162 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
163 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
164 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
168 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
174 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
181 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
184 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
188 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
190 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
191 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
192 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
196 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
198 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
199 they were previously ignored.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
203 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
205 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
206 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
210 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
212 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
213 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
214 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
218 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
220 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
224 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
226 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
227 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
231 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
233 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
234 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
235 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
236 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
237 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
238 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
239 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
240 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
241 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
242 it is an obsolete program.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
246 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
248 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
252 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
256 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
258 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
262 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
264 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
266 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
268 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
272 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
278 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
280 * typo: Closes, #78567
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
284 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
290 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
296 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
298 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
299 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
300 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
301 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
302 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
303 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
307 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
310 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
315 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
318 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
319 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
320 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
321 backwards-compatability.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
325 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
327 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
328 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
329 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
330 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
331 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
332 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
333 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
335 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
336 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
337 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
339 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
341 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
342 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
343 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
344 should now be raised to severity important..
345 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
346 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
350 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
353 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
358 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Typo, Closes: #77441
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
364 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Completed the fix from the last version.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
370 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
376 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
378 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
383 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
386 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
387 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
388 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
389 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
393 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
399 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
402 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
403 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
404 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
405 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
406 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
407 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
412 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
415 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
419 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
425 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
428 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
433 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
436 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
437 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
438 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
439 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
443 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
447 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
450 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
453 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
454 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
457 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
459 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
460 the TODO entry about it.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
464 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
471 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
474 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
475 prevent that. Closes: #73052
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
479 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Typo, Closes: #72932
482 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
483 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
484 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
485 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
489 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
495 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
502 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
505 (this appears to be logal).
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
509 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
511 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
512 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
513 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
514 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
515 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
519 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
525 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
527 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
528 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
529 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
530 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
531 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
535 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
541 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
544 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
548 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
555 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
558 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
559 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
560 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
565 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
572 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
578 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
580 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
581 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
582 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
583 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
584 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
585 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
586 notice until v2 is complete.
587 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
588 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
589 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
590 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
591 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
592 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
594 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
595 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
596 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
597 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
601 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
607 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
614 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
617 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
621 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
628 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
631 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
632 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
633 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
634 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
639 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
642 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
643 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
644 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
652 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
653 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
657 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
660 just skip files that end in -\d+.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
664 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
667 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
671 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
678 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
680 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
681 depend on the build and install targets.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
685 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
688 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
692 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
699 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
705 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
711 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
714 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
715 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
716 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
717 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
718 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
719 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
721 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
722 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
723 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
724 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
725 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
726 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
727 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
731 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
737 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
743 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
746 right place. Closes: #55065
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
750 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
757 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Make all examples rules files executable.
760 * Copyright date updates.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
764 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
767 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
772 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
778 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
785 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
791 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
797 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
803 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
806 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
807 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
808 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
809 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
810 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
811 bits until all files have been registered.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
815 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_installmanpages:
818 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
819 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
820 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
821 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
822 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
823 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
824 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
825 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
826 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
827 otherwise change the result at all.
829 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
830 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
831 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
832 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
833 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
838 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
844 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
847 act on files that don't exist.
848 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
849 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
850 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
852 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
853 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
854 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
855 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
859 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
865 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
871 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
874 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
878 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
881 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
883 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
884 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
885 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
889 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
892 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
893 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
894 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
895 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
896 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
897 does not compress. Closes: #41733
898 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
900 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
902 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
906 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
913 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
919 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
925 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
928 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
932 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
938 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
944 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
947 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
948 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
949 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
950 I made some changes, though:
951 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
952 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
953 that is a clear violation of policy.
954 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
955 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
956 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
957 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
958 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
959 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
960 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
961 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
962 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
964 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
968 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
974 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
977 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
981 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
984 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
985 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
990 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1003 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1006 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1007 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1008 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1009 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1010 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1011 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1012 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1016 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1022 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1026 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1027 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1037 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1040 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1044 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1047 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1048 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1052 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1054 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1059 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1063 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1070 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1071 for the dependancies to be generated.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1075 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1078 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1082 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1085 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1086 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1087 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1092 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1095 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1096 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1100 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1106 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1112 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1115 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1119 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1125 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1128 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1129 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1130 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1131 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1132 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1133 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1134 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1135 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1136 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1137 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1138 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1139 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1143 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1146 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1147 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1149 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1150 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1151 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1152 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1153 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1154 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1156 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1157 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1161 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1164 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1168 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1175 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1178 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1183 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1186 for building debhelper.
1187 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1191 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1198 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1201 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1205 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1208 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1209 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1210 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1211 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1212 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1213 it's always available.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1217 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1220 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1221 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1222 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1226 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1229 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1230 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1234 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1240 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1243 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1247 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1253 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1256 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1257 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1258 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1262 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1265 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1270 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1273 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1274 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1276 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1277 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1287 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1293 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1296 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1300 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1303 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1304 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1306 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1313 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1314 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1315 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1319 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1322 things if CDPATH is set.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1326 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1332 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1335 seems to make sense for the transition.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1339 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1342 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1347 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1350 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1351 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1355 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1358 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1362 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1365 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1366 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1367 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1368 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1372 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1378 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1381 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1382 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1383 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1384 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1385 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1386 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1387 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1388 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1389 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1390 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1395 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1398 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1399 * README: mention doc/v2
1400 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1401 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1405 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1407 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1408 be using this script RSN.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1412 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1415 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1416 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1417 more than 1 init script.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1421 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1424 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1428 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Changed perl version detection.
1431 * Changed call to find.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1435 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1438 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1440 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1445 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Really include dh_installpam.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1451 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1454 * Wrote man page for same.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1458 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1461 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1462 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1467 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1474 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1477 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1478 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1479 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1480 x bit was being set!
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1484 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1487 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1488 well. (Closes: 38900)
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1492 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1495 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1496 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1500 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1506 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1513 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1519 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1522 help from Julian Gilbey.
1523 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1524 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1525 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1526 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1527 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1528 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1529 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1534 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1540 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1547 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1553 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1559 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1562 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1566 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1569 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1576 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1580 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1586 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1589 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1593 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1599 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1605 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1608 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1609 may be deleted. (#35845)
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1613 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Various man page enhancements.
1616 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1621 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1624 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1625 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1629 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1632 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1633 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1634 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1636 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1637 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1642 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1648 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Another very minor typo fix.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1654 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Very minor typo fix.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1660 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1663 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1664 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1668 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1674 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1677 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1678 variables properly (#34850).
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1682 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1688 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1691 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1692 (automatically generated by build process).
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1696 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1698 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1702 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1705 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1706 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1708 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1712 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1715 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1719 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * README: minor typo fix.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1725 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1728 leave it at that. :-)
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1732 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1738 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1744 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1747 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1748 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1749 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1753 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1756 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1760 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1763 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1767 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1770 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1771 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1772 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1773 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1777 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1780 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1781 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1782 Craig Small for spotting this.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1786 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1789 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1790 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1794 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1800 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1803 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1807 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1809 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1810 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1811 working on the last version of debhelper.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1815 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1818 being made. (#23255)
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1822 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1828 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1831 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1835 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1838 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1839 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1840 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1841 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1845 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1848 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1849 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1850 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1851 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1853 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1854 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1856 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1861 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1867 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1873 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1876 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1877 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1878 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1879 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1880 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1881 suidregister actually supports it.
1882 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1883 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1887 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1894 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1897 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1898 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1899 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1900 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1901 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1902 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1903 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1907 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1909 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1910 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1914 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1917 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1918 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1919 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1920 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1924 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1927 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1929 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1930 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1931 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1932 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1933 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1934 effect, either. (#30118)
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1938 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1944 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1947 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1948 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1952 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1958 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1961 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1962 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1963 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1964 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1968 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1971 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1972 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1976 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1982 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1985 packages, painlessly.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1989 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1995 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2001 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2007 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * The perl conversion is complete.
2011 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2013 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2014 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2015 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2020 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2023 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2024 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2025 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2029 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2032 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2034 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2036 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2037 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2041 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2044 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2045 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2049 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2055 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2058 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2059 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2060 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2061 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2062 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2066 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2069 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2070 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2071 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2072 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2076 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2079 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2083 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2086 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2087 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2088 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2089 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2090 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2091 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2092 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2093 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2097 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2103 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2106 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2107 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2108 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2113 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2116 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2120 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2123 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2127 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2130 sections of shared libraries.
2131 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2132 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2133 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2134 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2135 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2136 things you don't want them to.
2137 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2138 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2142 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2145 shared libraries. (#26414)
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2149 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2151 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2152 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2153 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2154 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2158 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2162 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2164 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2165 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2166 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2167 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2168 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2172 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2175 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2179 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2182 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2183 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2188 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2191 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2195 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2198 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2199 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2200 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2201 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2202 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2204 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2205 remove debian/files properly.
2206 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2207 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2208 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2209 * Removed bogus menu file.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2213 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2216 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2220 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2223 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2224 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2225 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2226 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2227 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2228 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2232 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2235 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2236 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2237 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2238 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2242 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2249 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2252 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2253 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2255 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2256 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2257 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2258 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2259 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2260 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2264 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2267 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2268 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2269 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2270 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2271 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2272 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2273 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2274 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2275 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2276 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2277 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2278 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2279 passed any switches.
2280 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2284 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2287 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2288 at all for a long while.
2289 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2290 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2291 large chunks in the process.
2292 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2293 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2294 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2299 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2302 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2304 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2309 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2312 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2313 that don't always have the same files in them.
2314 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2315 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2316 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2320 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2324 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2325 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2326 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2327 updating 27 man pages.
2328 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2329 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2330 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2331 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2332 programs act on. (#25247)
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2336 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2340 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2341 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2342 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2343 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2344 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2345 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2350 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2357 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2364 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2367 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2371 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2377 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2380 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2381 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2382 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2383 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2384 package by accident.
2385 * Is version 1.0 next?
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2389 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2392 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2393 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2397 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2400 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2401 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2402 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2403 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2404 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2406 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2411 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2414 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2415 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2419 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2422 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2426 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2429 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2430 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2435 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2441 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2444 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2445 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2450 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2456 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2459 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2460 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2461 past week. Thanks, guys!
2463 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2464 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2465 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2466 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2467 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2468 would do in the same situation.
2469 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2470 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2472 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2474 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2475 permissions changed.
2476 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2477 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2478 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2479 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2480 files are treated identically.
2481 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2482 * Minor man page fixes.
2483 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2484 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2485 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2489 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2492 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2493 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2494 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2495 use -X multiple times, too.
2496 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2497 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2501 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2504 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2505 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2509 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2512 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2516 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2519 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2520 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2521 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2522 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2523 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2524 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2525 shape if you're starting a new package.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2529 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2532 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2536 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2539 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2540 because of missing symlinks.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2544 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2550 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2553 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2554 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2555 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2556 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2557 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2559 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2560 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2564 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2566 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2567 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2568 to be changed after the fact :-)
2569 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2573 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2576 no version string after the -V.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2580 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2582 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2583 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2588 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2591 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2595 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2598 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2599 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2600 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2601 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2602 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2603 I always welcome corrections!
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2607 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2613 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2616 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2617 * Documented this new switch.
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2621 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2624 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2625 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2626 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2627 no packages use the old behavior.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2631 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2634 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2635 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2639 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2642 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2646 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2652 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2655 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2659 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2662 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2663 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2664 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2668 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2674 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2677 into the source package by accident.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2681 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2684 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2685 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2686 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2687 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2688 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2689 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2694 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2698 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2699 inspired to implement some of it.
2700 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2704 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2707 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2711 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2714 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2715 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2719 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2722 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2723 have done.) (#17598)
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2727 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2733 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2739 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2742 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2746 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2749 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2750 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2754 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2757 argument processor in perl.
2758 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2759 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2760 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2761 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2765 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2768 type directories. (#16933)
2769 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2770 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2771 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2772 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2773 are supported. (#16935)
2774 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2779 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2782 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2786 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2790 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2791 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2792 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2793 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2794 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2795 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2799 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2802 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2803 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2805 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2806 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2807 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2808 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2809 a given package, or -i or -a.
2810 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2811 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2812 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2813 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2814 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2815 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2816 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2817 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2818 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2820 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2821 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2822 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2826 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2829 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2830 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2835 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2838 does not have a section.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2842 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2845 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2846 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2847 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2851 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Fixed typo #16215.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2857 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2860 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2861 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2862 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2863 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2864 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2869 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2872 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2873 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2874 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2879 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2885 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2891 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2894 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2895 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2896 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2897 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2898 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2899 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2903 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2909 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2912 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2916 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2919 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2920 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2921 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2925 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2928 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2932 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2938 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2941 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2945 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2948 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2952 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2958 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2961 postinst, postrm, etc.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2965 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2971 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2974 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2975 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2976 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2977 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2978 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2982 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2985 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2986 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2990 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2993 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2997 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3000 installing package files into.
3001 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3006 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3010 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3014 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3020 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3023 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3027 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3030 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3031 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3032 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3033 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3037 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3039 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3040 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3041 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3042 multiple binary packages.
3043 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3044 should rebuild them with this version.
3045 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3049 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3052 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3056 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3059 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3063 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3066 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3067 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3068 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3069 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3070 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3071 debian/README.debian.
3072 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3073 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3074 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3075 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3076 in a few situations.)
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3080 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3086 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3092 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3095 * Fixed several man pages.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3099 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3102 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3103 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3107 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3110 is ready for general use.
3111 * Added man pages for all commands.
3112 * Multiple binary package support.
3113 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3114 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3115 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3117 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3118 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3119 auto-installed as parameters.
3120 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3122 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3125 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3126 the package build directory it is to act on.
3127 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3128 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3129 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3133 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3135 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3136 ready to replace debstd.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400