1 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
5 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
6 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
7 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
8 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
9 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
11 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
12 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
13 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
15 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
17 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
18 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
19 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
20 should now be raised to severity important..
21 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
22 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
26 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
29 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
34 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Typo, Closes: #77441
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
40 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Completed the fix from the last version.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
46 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
52 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
54 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
59 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
62 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
63 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
64 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
65 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
69 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
75 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
78 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
79 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
80 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
81 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
82 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
83 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
88 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
91 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
95 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
101 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
104 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
109 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
112 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
113 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
114 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
115 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
119 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
121 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
123 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
126 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
129 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
130 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
133 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
135 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
136 the TODO entry about it.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
140 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
147 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
150 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
151 prevent that. Closes: #73052
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
155 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Typo, Closes: #72932
158 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
159 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
160 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
161 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
165 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
171 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
178 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
181 (this appears to be logal).
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
185 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
188 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
189 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
190 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
191 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
195 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
201 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
203 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
204 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
205 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
206 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
207 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
211 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
217 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
220 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
224 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
231 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
234 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
235 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
236 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
241 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
248 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
254 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
256 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
257 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
258 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
259 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
260 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
261 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
262 notice until v2 is complete.
263 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
264 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
265 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
266 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
267 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
268 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
270 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
271 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
272 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
273 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
277 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
283 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
290 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
293 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
297 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
304 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
307 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
308 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
309 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
310 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
315 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
318 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
319 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
320 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
325 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
328 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
329 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
333 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
336 just skip files that end in -\d+.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
340 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
343 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
347 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
354 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
356 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
357 depend on the build and install targets.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
361 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
364 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
368 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
375 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
381 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
387 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
390 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
391 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
392 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
393 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
394 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
395 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
397 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
398 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
399 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
400 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
401 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
402 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
403 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
407 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
413 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
419 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
422 right place. Closes: #55065
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
426 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
433 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Make all examples rules files executable.
436 * Copyright date updates.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
440 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
443 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
448 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
454 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
461 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
467 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
473 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
479 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
482 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
483 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
484 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
485 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
486 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
487 bits until all files have been registered.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
491 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_installmanpages:
494 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
495 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
496 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
497 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
498 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
499 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
500 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
501 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
502 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
503 otherwise change the result at all.
505 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
506 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
507 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
508 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
509 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
514 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
520 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
523 act on files that don't exist.
524 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
525 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
526 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
528 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
529 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
530 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
531 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
535 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
541 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
547 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
550 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
554 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
557 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
559 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
560 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
561 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
565 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
568 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
569 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
570 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
571 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
572 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
573 does not compress. Closes: #41733
574 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
576 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
578 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
582 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
589 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
595 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
601 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
604 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
608 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
614 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
620 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
623 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
624 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
625 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
626 I made some changes, though:
627 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
628 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
629 that is a clear violation of policy.
630 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
631 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
632 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
633 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
634 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
635 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
636 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
637 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
638 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
640 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
644 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
650 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
653 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
657 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
660 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
661 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
666 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
672 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
679 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
682 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
683 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
684 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
685 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
686 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
687 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
688 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
692 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
698 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
702 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
703 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
707 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
713 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
716 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
720 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
723 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
724 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
728 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
730 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
735 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
739 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
743 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
745 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
746 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
747 for the dependancies to be generated.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
751 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
754 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
758 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
761 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
762 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
763 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
771 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
772 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
776 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
782 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
788 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
791 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
795 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
803 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
804 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
805 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
806 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
807 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
808 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
809 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
810 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
811 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
812 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
813 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
814 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
815 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
819 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
821 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
822 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
823 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
825 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
826 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
827 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
828 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
829 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
830 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
832 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
833 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
837 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
840 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
844 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
851 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
853 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
854 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
859 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
862 for building debhelper.
863 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
867 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
874 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Fixed makefile commit target.
877 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
881 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
884 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
885 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
886 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
887 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
888 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
889 it's always available.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
893 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
896 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
897 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
898 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
902 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
905 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
906 modules. (Closes: #42171)
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
910 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
916 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
919 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
923 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
929 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
932 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
933 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
934 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
938 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
941 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
946 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
949 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
950 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
952 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
953 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
957 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
963 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
969 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
971 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
972 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
976 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
979 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
980 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
982 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
986 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
989 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
990 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
991 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
995 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
998 things if CDPATH is set.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1002 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1008 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1011 seems to make sense for the transition.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1015 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1018 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1023 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1026 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1027 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1034 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1038 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1041 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1042 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1043 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1044 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1048 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1057 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1058 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1059 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1060 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1061 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1062 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1063 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1064 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1065 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1066 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1071 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1074 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1075 * README: mention doc/v2
1076 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1077 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1081 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1083 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1084 be using this script RSN.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1088 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1091 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1092 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1093 more than 1 init script.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1097 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1100 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1104 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Changed perl version detection.
1107 * Changed call to find.
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1111 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1114 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1116 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1121 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Really include dh_installpam.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1127 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1130 * Wrote man page for same.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1134 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1137 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1138 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1143 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1150 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1153 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1154 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1155 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1156 x bit was being set!
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1160 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1163 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1164 well. (Closes: 38900)
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1168 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1171 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1172 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1176 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1182 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1189 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1195 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1198 help from Julian Gilbey.
1199 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1200 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1201 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1202 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1203 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1204 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1205 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1210 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1216 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1223 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1229 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1235 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1238 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1242 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1245 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1249 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1252 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1256 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1262 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1265 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1269 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1275 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1281 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1284 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1285 may be deleted. (#35845)
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1289 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Various man page enhancements.
1292 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1297 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1300 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1301 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1305 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1308 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1309 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1310 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1312 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1313 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1318 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1324 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Another very minor typo fix.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1330 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Very minor typo fix.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1336 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1339 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1340 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1344 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1350 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1353 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1354 variables properly (#34850).
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1358 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1364 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1367 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1368 (automatically generated by build process).
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1372 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1374 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1378 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1381 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1382 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1384 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1388 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1391 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1395 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * README: minor typo fix.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1401 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1404 leave it at that. :-)
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1408 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1414 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1420 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1423 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1424 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1425 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1429 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1432 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1436 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1439 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1443 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1446 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1447 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1448 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1449 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1453 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1456 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1457 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1458 Craig Small for spotting this.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1462 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1465 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1466 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1470 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1476 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1479 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1483 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1485 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1486 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1487 working on the last version of debhelper.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1491 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1494 being made. (#23255)
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1498 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1504 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1507 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1511 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1514 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1515 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1516 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1517 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1521 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1524 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1525 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1526 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1527 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1529 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1530 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1532 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1537 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1543 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1549 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1552 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1553 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1554 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1555 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1556 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1557 suidregister actually supports it.
1558 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1559 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1563 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1570 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1573 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1574 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1575 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1576 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1577 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1578 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1579 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1583 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1585 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1586 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1590 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1593 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1594 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1595 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1596 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1600 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1603 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1605 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1606 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1607 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1608 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1609 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1610 effect, either. (#30118)
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1614 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1620 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1623 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1624 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1628 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1634 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1637 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1638 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1639 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1640 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1644 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1647 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1648 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1652 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1658 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1661 packages, painlessly.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1665 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1671 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1677 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1683 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * The perl conversion is complete.
1687 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1689 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1690 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1691 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1696 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1699 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1700 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1701 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1705 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1708 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1710 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1712 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1713 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1717 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1720 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1721 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1725 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1731 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1734 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1735 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1736 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1737 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1738 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1742 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1745 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1746 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1747 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1748 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1752 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1755 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1759 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1762 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1763 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1764 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1765 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1766 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1767 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1768 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1769 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1773 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1779 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1782 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1783 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1784 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1789 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1792 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1796 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1799 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1803 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1806 sections of shared libraries.
1807 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1808 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1809 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1810 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1811 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1812 things you don't want them to.
1813 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1814 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1818 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1821 shared libraries. (#26414)
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1825 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1827 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1828 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1829 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1830 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1834 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1838 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1840 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1841 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1842 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1843 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1844 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1848 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1851 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1855 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1858 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1859 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1864 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1867 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1871 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1874 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1875 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1876 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1877 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1878 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1880 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1881 remove debian/files properly.
1882 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1883 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1884 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1885 * Removed bogus menu file.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1889 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1892 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1896 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1899 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1900 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1901 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1902 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1903 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1904 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1908 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1911 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1912 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1913 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1914 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1918 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1925 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1928 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1929 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1931 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1932 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1933 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1934 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1935 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1936 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1940 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1943 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1944 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1945 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1946 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1947 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1948 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1949 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1950 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1951 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1952 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1953 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1954 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1955 passed any switches.
1956 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1960 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1963 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1964 at all for a long while.
1965 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1966 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1967 large chunks in the process.
1968 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1969 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1970 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1975 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1978 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1980 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1985 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1988 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1989 that don't always have the same files in them.
1990 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1991 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1992 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1996 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2000 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2001 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2002 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2003 updating 27 man pages.
2004 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2005 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2006 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2007 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2008 programs act on. (#25247)
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2012 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2016 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2017 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2018 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2019 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2020 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2021 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2026 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2033 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2040 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2043 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2047 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2053 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2056 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2057 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2058 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2059 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2060 package by accident.
2061 * Is version 1.0 next?
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2065 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2068 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2069 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2073 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2076 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2077 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2078 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2079 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2080 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2082 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2087 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2090 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2091 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2095 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2098 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2102 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2105 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2106 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2111 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2117 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2120 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2121 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2126 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2132 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2135 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2136 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2137 past week. Thanks, guys!
2139 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2140 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2141 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2142 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2143 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2144 would do in the same situation.
2145 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2146 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2148 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2150 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2151 permissions changed.
2152 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2153 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2154 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2155 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2156 files are treated identically.
2157 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2158 * Minor man page fixes.
2159 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2160 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2161 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2165 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2168 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2169 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2170 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2171 use -X multiple times, too.
2172 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2173 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2177 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2180 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2181 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2185 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2188 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2192 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2195 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2196 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2197 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2198 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2199 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2200 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2201 shape if you're starting a new package.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2205 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2208 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2212 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2215 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2216 because of missing symlinks.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2220 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2226 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2229 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2230 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2231 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2232 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2233 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2235 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2236 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2240 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2242 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2243 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2244 to be changed after the fact :-)
2245 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2249 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2252 no version string after the -V.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2256 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2258 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2259 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2264 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2267 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2271 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2274 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2275 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2276 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2277 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2278 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2279 I always welcome corrections!
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2283 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2289 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2292 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2293 * Documented this new switch.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2297 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2300 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2301 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2302 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2303 no packages use the old behavior.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2307 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2310 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2311 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2315 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2318 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2322 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2328 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2331 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2335 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2338 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2339 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2340 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2344 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2350 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2353 into the source package by accident.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2357 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2360 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2361 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2362 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2363 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2364 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2365 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2370 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2374 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2375 inspired to implement some of it.
2376 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2380 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2383 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2387 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2390 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2391 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2395 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2398 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2399 have done.) (#17598)
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2403 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2409 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2415 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2418 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2422 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2425 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2426 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2430 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2433 argument processor in perl.
2434 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2435 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2436 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2437 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2441 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2444 type directories. (#16933)
2445 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2446 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2447 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2448 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2449 are supported. (#16935)
2450 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2455 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2458 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2462 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2466 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2467 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2468 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2469 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2470 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2471 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2475 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2478 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2479 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2481 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2482 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2483 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2484 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2485 a given package, or -i or -a.
2486 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2487 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2488 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2489 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2490 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2491 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2492 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2493 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2494 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2496 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2497 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2498 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2502 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2505 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2506 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2511 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2514 does not have a section.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2518 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2521 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2522 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2523 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2527 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * Fixed typo #16215.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2533 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2536 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2537 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2538 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2539 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2540 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2545 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2548 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2549 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2550 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2555 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2561 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2567 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2570 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2571 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2572 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2573 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2574 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2575 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2579 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2585 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2588 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2592 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2595 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2596 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2597 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2601 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2604 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2608 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2614 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2617 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2621 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2624 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2628 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2634 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2637 postinst, postrm, etc.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2641 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2647 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2650 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2651 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2652 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2653 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2654 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2658 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2661 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2662 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2666 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2669 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2673 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2676 installing package files into.
2677 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2682 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2686 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2690 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2696 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2699 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2703 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2706 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2707 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2708 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2709 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2713 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2715 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2716 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2717 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2718 multiple binary packages.
2719 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2720 should rebuild them with this version.
2721 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2725 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2728 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2732 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2735 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2739 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2742 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2743 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2744 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2745 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2746 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2747 debian/README.debian.
2748 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2749 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2750 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2751 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2752 in a few situations.)
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2756 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2762 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2768 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2771 * Fixed several man pages.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2775 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2778 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2779 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2783 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2786 is ready for general use.
2787 * Added man pages for all commands.
2788 * Multiple binary package support.
2789 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2790 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2791 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2793 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2794 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2795 auto-installed as parameters.
2796 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2798 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2801 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2802 the package build directory it is to act on.
2803 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2804 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2805 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2809 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2811 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2812 ready to replace debstd.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400