1 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
8 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
11 (this appears to be logal).
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
15 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
18 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
19 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
20 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
21 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
25 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
31 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
33 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
34 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
35 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
36 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
37 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
41 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
47 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
50 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
54 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
61 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
64 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
65 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
66 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
71 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
78 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
84 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
86 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
87 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
88 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
89 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
90 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
91 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
92 notice until v2 is complete.
93 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
94 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
95 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
96 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
97 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
98 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
100 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
101 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
102 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
103 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
107 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
113 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
120 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
123 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
127 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
134 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
137 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
138 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
139 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
140 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
145 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
148 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
149 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
150 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
155 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
158 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
159 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
163 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
166 just skip files that end in -\d+.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
170 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
173 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
177 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
184 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
186 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
187 depend on the build and install targets.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
191 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
194 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
198 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
205 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
211 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
217 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
220 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
221 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
222 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
223 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
224 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
225 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
227 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
228 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
229 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
230 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
231 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
232 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
233 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
237 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
243 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
249 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
252 right place. Closes: #55065
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
256 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
263 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Make all examples rules files executable.
266 * Copyright date updates.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
270 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
273 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
278 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
284 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
291 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
297 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
303 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
309 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
312 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
313 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
314 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
315 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
316 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
317 bits until all files have been registered.
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
321 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_installmanpages:
324 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
325 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
326 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
327 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
328 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
329 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
330 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
331 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
332 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
333 otherwise change the result at all.
335 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
336 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
337 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
338 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
339 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
344 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
350 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
353 act on files that don't exist.
354 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
355 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
356 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
358 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
359 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
360 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
361 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
365 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
371 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
377 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
380 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
384 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
387 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
389 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
390 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
391 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
395 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
398 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
399 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
400 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
401 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
402 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
403 does not compress. Closes: #41733
404 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
406 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
408 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
412 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
419 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
425 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
427 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
431 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
434 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
438 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
444 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
450 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
453 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
454 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
455 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
456 I made some changes, though:
457 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
458 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
459 that is a clear violation of policy.
460 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
461 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
462 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
463 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
464 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
465 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
466 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
467 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
468 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
470 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
474 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
480 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
483 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
487 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
490 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
491 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
496 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
502 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
509 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
512 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
513 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
514 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
515 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
516 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
517 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
518 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
522 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
528 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
532 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
533 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
537 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
543 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
546 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
550 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
553 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
554 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
558 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
560 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
565 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
569 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
573 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
575 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
576 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
577 for the dependancies to be generated.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
581 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
584 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
588 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
591 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
592 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
593 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
598 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
601 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
602 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
606 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
612 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
618 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
621 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
625 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
631 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
633 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
634 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
635 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
636 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
637 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
638 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
639 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
640 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
641 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
642 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
643 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
644 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
645 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
651 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
652 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
653 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
655 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
656 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
657 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
658 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
659 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
660 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
662 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
663 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
667 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
670 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
674 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
681 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
683 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
684 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
689 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
692 for building debhelper.
693 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
697 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
704 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Fixed makefile commit target.
707 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
711 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
714 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
715 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
716 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
717 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
718 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
719 it's always available.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
723 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
726 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
727 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
728 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
732 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
735 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
736 modules. (Closes: #42171)
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
740 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
746 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
749 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
753 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
759 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
762 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
763 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
764 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
771 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
776 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
779 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
780 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
782 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
783 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
787 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
793 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
801 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
802 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
806 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
809 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
810 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
812 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
816 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
819 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
820 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
821 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
825 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
828 things if CDPATH is set.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
832 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
841 seems to make sense for the transition.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
845 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
848 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
853 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
856 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
857 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
861 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
864 that version. (Closes: #40589)
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
868 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
870 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
871 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
872 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
873 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
874 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
878 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
884 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
887 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
888 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
889 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
890 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
891 * debhelper.1: documented this.
892 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
893 current compatability level is equal to that number.
894 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
895 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
896 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
901 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
903 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
904 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
905 * README: mention doc/v2
906 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
907 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
911 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
913 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
914 be using this script RSN.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
918 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
921 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
922 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
923 more than 1 init script.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
927 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
930 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
934 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Changed perl version detection.
937 * Changed call to find.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
941 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
944 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
946 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
951 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
953 * Really include dh_installpam.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
957 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
960 * Wrote man page for same.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
964 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
967 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
968 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
973 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
980 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
983 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
984 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
985 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
990 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
993 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
994 well. (Closes: 38900)
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
998 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1001 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1002 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1006 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1012 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1019 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1025 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1028 help from Julian Gilbey.
1029 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1030 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1031 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1032 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1033 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1034 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1035 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1040 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1053 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1059 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1065 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1068 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1072 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1075 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1079 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1082 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1086 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1092 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1095 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1099 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1105 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1111 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1114 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1115 may be deleted. (#35845)
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1119 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Various man page enhancements.
1122 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1127 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1130 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1131 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1135 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1138 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1139 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1140 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1142 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1143 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1148 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1154 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Another very minor typo fix.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1160 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Very minor typo fix.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1166 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1169 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1170 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1174 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1180 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1183 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1184 variables properly (#34850).
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1188 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1194 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1197 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1198 (automatically generated by build process).
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1202 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1204 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1208 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1211 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1212 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1214 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1218 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1221 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1225 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * README: minor typo fix.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1231 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1234 leave it at that. :-)
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1238 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1244 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1250 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1253 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1254 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1255 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1259 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1262 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1266 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1269 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1273 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1276 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1277 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1278 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1279 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1283 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1286 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1287 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1288 Craig Small for spotting this.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1292 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1295 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1296 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1300 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1306 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1309 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1313 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1315 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1316 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1317 working on the last version of debhelper.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1321 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1324 being made. (#23255)
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1328 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1334 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1337 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1341 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1344 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1345 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1346 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1347 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1351 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1354 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1355 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1356 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1357 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1359 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1360 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1362 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1367 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1373 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1379 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1382 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1383 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1384 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1385 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1386 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1387 suidregister actually supports it.
1388 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1389 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1393 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1400 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1403 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1404 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1405 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1406 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1407 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1408 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1409 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1413 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1415 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1416 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1420 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1423 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1424 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1425 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1426 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1430 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1433 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1435 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1436 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1437 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1438 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1439 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1440 effect, either. (#30118)
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1444 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1450 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1453 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1454 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1458 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1464 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1467 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1468 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1469 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1470 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1474 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1477 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1478 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1482 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1488 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1491 packages, painlessly.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1495 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1501 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1507 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1513 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * The perl conversion is complete.
1517 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1519 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1520 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1521 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1526 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1529 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1530 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1531 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1535 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1538 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1540 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1542 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1543 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1547 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1550 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1551 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1555 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1561 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1564 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1565 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1566 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1567 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1568 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1572 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1575 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1576 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1577 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1578 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1582 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1585 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1589 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1592 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1593 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1594 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1595 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1596 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1597 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1598 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1599 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1603 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1609 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1612 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1613 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1614 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1619 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1622 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1626 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1629 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1633 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1636 sections of shared libraries.
1637 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1638 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1639 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1640 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1641 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1642 things you don't want them to.
1643 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1644 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1648 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1651 shared libraries. (#26414)
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1655 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1657 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1658 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1659 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1660 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1664 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1668 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1670 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1671 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1672 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1673 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1674 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1678 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1681 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1685 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1688 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1689 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1694 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1697 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1701 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1704 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1705 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1706 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1707 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1708 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1710 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1711 remove debian/files properly.
1712 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1713 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1714 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1715 * Removed bogus menu file.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1719 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1722 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1726 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1729 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1730 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1731 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1732 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1733 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1734 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1738 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1741 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1742 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1743 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1744 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1748 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1755 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1758 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1759 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1761 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1762 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1763 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1764 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1765 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1766 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1770 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1773 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1774 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1775 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1776 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1777 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1778 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1779 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1780 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1781 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1782 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1783 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1784 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1785 passed any switches.
1786 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1793 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1794 at all for a long while.
1795 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1796 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1797 large chunks in the process.
1798 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1799 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1800 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1805 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1808 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1810 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1815 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1818 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1819 that don't always have the same files in them.
1820 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1821 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1822 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1826 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1830 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1831 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1832 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1833 updating 27 man pages.
1834 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1835 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1836 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1837 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1838 programs act on. (#25247)
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1842 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1846 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1847 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1848 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1849 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1850 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1851 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1856 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1863 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1870 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1873 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1877 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1883 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1886 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1887 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1888 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1889 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1890 package by accident.
1891 * Is version 1.0 next?
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1895 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1898 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1899 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1903 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1906 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1907 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1908 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1909 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1910 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1912 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1917 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1920 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1921 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1925 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1928 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1932 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1935 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1936 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1941 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1947 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1950 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1951 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1956 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1962 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1965 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1966 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1967 past week. Thanks, guys!
1969 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1970 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1971 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1972 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1973 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1974 would do in the same situation.
1975 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1976 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1978 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1980 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1981 permissions changed.
1982 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1983 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1984 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1985 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1986 files are treated identically.
1987 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1988 * Minor man page fixes.
1989 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1990 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1991 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1995 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1998 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1999 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2000 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2001 use -X multiple times, too.
2002 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2003 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2007 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2010 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2011 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2015 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2018 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2022 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2025 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2026 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2027 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2028 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2029 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2030 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2031 shape if you're starting a new package.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2035 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2038 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2042 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2045 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2046 because of missing symlinks.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2050 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2056 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2059 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2060 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2061 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2062 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2063 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2065 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2066 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2070 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2072 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2073 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2074 to be changed after the fact :-)
2075 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2079 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2082 no version string after the -V.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2086 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2088 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2089 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2094 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2097 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2101 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2104 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2105 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2106 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2107 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2108 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2109 I always welcome corrections!
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2113 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2119 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2122 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2123 * Documented this new switch.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2127 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2130 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2131 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2132 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2133 no packages use the old behavior.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2137 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2140 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2141 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2145 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2148 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2152 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2158 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2161 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2165 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2168 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2169 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2170 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2174 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2180 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2183 into the source package by accident.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2187 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2190 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2191 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2192 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2193 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2194 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2195 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2200 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2204 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2205 inspired to implement some of it.
2206 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2210 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2213 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2217 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2220 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2221 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2225 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2228 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2229 have done.) (#17598)
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2233 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2239 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2245 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2248 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2252 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2255 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2256 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2260 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2263 argument processor in perl.
2264 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2265 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2266 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2267 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2271 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2274 type directories. (#16933)
2275 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2276 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2277 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2278 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2279 are supported. (#16935)
2280 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2285 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2288 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2292 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2296 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2297 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2298 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2299 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2300 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2301 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2305 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2308 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2309 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2311 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2312 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2313 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2314 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2315 a given package, or -i or -a.
2316 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2317 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2318 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2319 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2320 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2321 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2322 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2323 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2324 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2326 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2327 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2328 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2332 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2335 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2336 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2341 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2344 does not have a section.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2348 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2351 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2352 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2353 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2357 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Fixed typo #16215.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2363 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2366 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2367 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2368 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2369 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2370 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2375 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2378 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2379 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2380 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2385 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2391 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2397 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2400 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2401 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2402 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2403 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2404 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2405 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2409 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2415 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2418 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2422 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2425 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2426 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2427 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2431 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2434 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2438 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2444 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2447 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2451 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2454 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2458 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2464 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2467 postinst, postrm, etc.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2471 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2477 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2480 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2481 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2482 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2483 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2484 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2488 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2491 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2492 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2496 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2499 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2503 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2506 installing package files into.
2507 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2512 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2516 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2520 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2526 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2529 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2533 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2536 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2537 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2538 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2539 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2543 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2545 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2546 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2547 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2548 multiple binary packages.
2549 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2550 should rebuild them with this version.
2551 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2555 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2558 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2562 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2565 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2569 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2572 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2573 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2574 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2575 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2576 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2577 debian/README.debian.
2578 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2579 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2580 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2581 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2582 in a few situations.)
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2586 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2592 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2598 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2601 * Fixed several man pages.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2605 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2608 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2609 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2613 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2616 is ready for general use.
2617 * Added man pages for all commands.
2618 * Multiple binary package support.
2619 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2620 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2621 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2623 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2624 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2625 auto-installed as parameters.
2626 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2628 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2631 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2632 the package build directory it is to act on.
2633 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2634 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2635 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2639 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2641 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2642 ready to replace debstd.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400