1 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
8 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
11 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
12 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
17 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
23 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
30 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
33 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
34 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
35 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
36 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
37 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
38 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
39 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
43 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
49 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
53 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
54 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
58 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
64 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
67 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
71 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
74 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
75 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
79 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
81 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
86 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
90 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
94 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
96 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
97 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
98 for the dependancies to be generated.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
102 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
105 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
109 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
112 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
113 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
114 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
119 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
121 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
122 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
123 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
127 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
133 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
139 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
142 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
146 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
152 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
154 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
155 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
156 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
157 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
158 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
159 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
160 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
161 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
162 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
163 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
164 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
165 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
166 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
170 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
172 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
173 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
174 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
176 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
177 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
178 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
179 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
180 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
181 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
183 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
184 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
188 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
191 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
195 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
202 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
204 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
205 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
210 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
213 for building debhelper.
214 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
218 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
225 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Fixed makefile commit target.
228 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
232 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
235 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
236 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
237 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
238 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
239 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
240 it's always available.
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
244 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
247 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
248 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
249 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
253 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
256 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
257 modules. (Closes: #42171)
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
261 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
270 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
280 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
283 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
284 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
285 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
289 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
292 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
297 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
300 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
301 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
303 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
304 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
308 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
314 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
320 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
322 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
323 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
327 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
330 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
331 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
333 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
337 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
340 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
341 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
342 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
346 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
349 things if CDPATH is set.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
353 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
359 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
362 seems to make sense for the transition.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
366 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
369 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
374 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
377 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
378 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
382 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
385 that version. (Closes: #40589)
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
389 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
391 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
392 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
393 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
394 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
395 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
399 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
405 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
408 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
409 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
410 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
411 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
412 * debhelper.1: documented this.
413 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
414 current compatability level is equal to that number.
415 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
416 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
417 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
422 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
424 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
425 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
426 * README: mention doc/v2
427 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
428 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
432 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
434 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
435 be using this script RSN.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
439 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
442 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
443 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
444 more than 1 init script.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
448 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
451 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
455 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Changed perl version detection.
458 * Changed call to find.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
462 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
465 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
467 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
472 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Really include dh_installpam.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
478 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
481 * Wrote man page for same.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
485 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
488 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
489 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
494 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
501 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
504 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
505 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
506 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
511 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
514 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
515 well. (Closes: 38900)
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
519 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
522 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
523 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
527 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
533 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
540 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
546 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
548 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
549 help from Julian Gilbey.
550 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
551 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
552 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
553 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
554 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
555 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
556 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
561 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
567 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
569 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
574 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
580 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
586 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
589 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
593 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
596 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
600 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
603 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
607 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
613 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
616 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
620 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
622 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
626 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
628 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
632 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
635 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
636 may be deleted. (#35845)
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
640 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Various man page enhancements.
643 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
648 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
651 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
652 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
656 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
659 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
660 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
661 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
663 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
664 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
669 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
675 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Another very minor typo fix.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
681 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Very minor typo fix.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
687 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
690 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
691 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
695 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
701 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
703 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
704 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
705 variables properly (#34850).
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
709 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
711 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
715 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
718 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
719 (automatically generated by build process).
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
723 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
725 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
729 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
732 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
733 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
735 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
739 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
742 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
746 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
748 * README: minor typo fix.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
752 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
755 leave it at that. :-)
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
759 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
765 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
771 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
774 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
775 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
776 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
780 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
783 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
787 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
790 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
794 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
797 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
798 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
799 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
800 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
804 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
807 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
808 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
809 Craig Small for spotting this.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
813 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
816 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
817 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
821 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
827 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
830 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
834 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
836 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
837 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
838 working on the last version of debhelper.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
842 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
849 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
851 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
855 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
858 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
862 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
864 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
865 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
866 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
867 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
868 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
872 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
875 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
876 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
877 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
878 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
880 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
881 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
883 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
888 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
890 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
894 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
900 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
903 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
904 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
905 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
906 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
907 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
908 suidregister actually supports it.
909 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
910 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
914 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
921 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
924 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
925 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
926 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
927 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
928 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
929 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
930 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
934 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
936 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
937 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
941 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
944 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
945 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
946 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
947 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
951 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
954 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
956 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
957 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
958 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
959 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
960 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
961 effect, either. (#30118)
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
965 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
971 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
974 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
975 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
979 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Spelling and typo fixes.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
985 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
987 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
988 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
989 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
990 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
991 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
995 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
998 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
999 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1003 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1009 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1012 packages, painlessly.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1016 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1022 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1028 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1034 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * The perl conversion is complete.
1038 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1040 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1041 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1042 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1047 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1050 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1051 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1052 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1056 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1059 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1061 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1063 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1064 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1068 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1071 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1072 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1076 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1082 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1085 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1086 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1087 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1088 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1089 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1093 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1096 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1097 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1098 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1099 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1103 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1106 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1110 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1113 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1114 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1115 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1116 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1117 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1118 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1119 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1120 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1124 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1130 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1133 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1134 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1135 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1140 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1143 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1147 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1150 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1154 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1157 sections of shared libraries.
1158 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1159 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1160 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1161 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1162 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1163 things you don't want them to.
1164 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1165 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1169 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1172 shared libraries. (#26414)
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1176 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1178 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1179 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1180 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1181 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1185 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1189 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1191 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1192 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1193 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1194 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1195 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1199 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1202 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1206 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1209 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1210 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1215 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1218 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1222 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1225 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1226 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1227 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1228 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1229 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1231 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1232 remove debian/files properly.
1233 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1234 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1235 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1236 * Removed bogus menu file.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1240 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1243 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1247 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1250 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1251 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1252 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1253 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1254 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1255 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1259 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1262 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1263 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1264 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1265 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1269 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1276 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1279 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1280 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1282 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1283 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1284 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1285 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1286 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1287 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1291 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1294 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1295 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1296 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1297 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1298 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1299 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1300 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1301 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1302 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1303 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1304 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1305 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1306 passed any switches.
1307 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1311 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1314 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1315 at all for a long while.
1316 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1317 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1318 large chunks in the process.
1319 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1320 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1321 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1326 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1329 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1331 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1336 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1339 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1340 that don't always have the same files in them.
1341 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1342 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1343 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1347 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1351 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1352 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1353 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1354 updating 27 man pages.
1355 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1356 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1357 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1358 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1359 programs act on. (#25247)
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1363 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1367 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1368 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1369 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1370 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1371 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1372 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1377 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1384 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1391 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1394 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1398 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1404 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1407 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1408 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1409 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1410 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1411 package by accident.
1412 * Is version 1.0 next?
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1416 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1419 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1420 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1424 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1427 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1428 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1429 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1430 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1431 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1433 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1438 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1441 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1442 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1446 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1449 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1453 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1456 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1457 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1462 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1468 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1471 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1472 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1477 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1483 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1486 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1487 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1488 past week. Thanks, guys!
1490 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1491 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1492 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1493 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1494 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1495 would do in the same situation.
1496 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1497 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1499 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1501 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1502 permissions changed.
1503 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1504 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1505 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1506 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1507 files are treated identically.
1508 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1509 * Minor man page fixes.
1510 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1511 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1512 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1516 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1519 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1520 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1521 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1522 use -X multiple times, too.
1523 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1524 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1528 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1531 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1532 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1536 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1539 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1543 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1546 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1547 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1548 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1549 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1550 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1551 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1552 shape if you're starting a new package.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1556 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1559 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1563 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1566 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1567 because of missing symlinks.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1571 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1577 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1580 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1581 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1582 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1583 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1584 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1586 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1587 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1591 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1593 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1594 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1595 to be changed after the fact :-)
1596 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1600 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1603 no version string after the -V.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1607 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1609 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1610 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1615 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1618 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1622 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1625 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1626 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1627 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1628 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1629 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1630 I always welcome corrections!
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1634 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1640 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1643 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1644 * Documented this new switch.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1648 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1651 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1652 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1653 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1654 no packages use the old behavior.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1658 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1661 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1662 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1666 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1669 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1673 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1679 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1682 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1686 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1689 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1690 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1691 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1695 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1701 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1704 into the source package by accident.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1708 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1711 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1712 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1713 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1714 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1715 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1716 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1721 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1725 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1726 inspired to implement some of it.
1727 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1731 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1734 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1738 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1741 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1742 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1746 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1749 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1750 have done.) (#17598)
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1754 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1760 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1766 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1769 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1773 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1776 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1777 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1781 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1784 argument processor in perl.
1785 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1786 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1787 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1788 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1792 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1795 type directories. (#16933)
1796 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1797 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1798 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1799 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1800 are supported. (#16935)
1801 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1806 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1809 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1813 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1817 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1818 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1819 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1820 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1821 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1822 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1826 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1829 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1830 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1832 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1833 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1834 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1835 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1836 a given package, or -i or -a.
1837 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1838 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1839 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1840 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1841 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1842 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1843 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1844 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1845 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1847 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1848 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1849 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1853 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1856 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1857 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1862 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1865 does not have a section.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1869 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1872 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1873 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1874 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1878 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Fixed typo #16215.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1884 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1887 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1888 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1889 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1890 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1891 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1896 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1899 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1900 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1901 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1906 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1912 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1918 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1921 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1922 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1923 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1924 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1925 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1926 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1930 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1936 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1939 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1943 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1946 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1947 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1948 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1952 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1955 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1959 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1965 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1968 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1972 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1975 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1979 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1985 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1988 postinst, postrm, etc.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1992 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1998 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2001 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2002 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2003 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2004 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2005 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2009 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2012 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2013 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2017 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2020 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2024 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2027 installing package files into.
2028 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2033 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2037 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2041 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2047 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2050 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2054 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2057 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2058 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2059 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2060 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2064 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2066 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2067 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2068 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2069 multiple binary packages.
2070 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2071 should rebuild them with this version.
2072 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2076 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2079 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2083 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2086 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2090 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2093 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2094 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2095 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2096 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2097 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2098 debian/README.debian.
2099 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2100 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2101 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2102 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2103 in a few situations.)
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2107 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2113 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2119 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2122 * Fixed several man pages.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2126 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2129 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2130 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2134 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2137 is ready for general use.
2138 * Added man pages for all commands.
2139 * Multiple binary package support.
2140 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2141 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2142 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2144 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2145 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2146 auto-installed as parameters.
2147 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2149 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2152 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2153 the package build directory it is to act on.
2154 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2155 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2156 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2160 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2162 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2163 ready to replace debstd.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400