1 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
5 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
6 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
10 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
13 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
14 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
18 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
21 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
25 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
28 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
29 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
33 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
36 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
37 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
38 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
42 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
45 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
46 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
47 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
51 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
54 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
58 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
64 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Typo, Closes: #92407
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
70 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
76 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
82 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
85 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
89 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
92 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
93 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
94 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
95 followed. Closes: #85483
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
99 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
101 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
102 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
103 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
107 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
110 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
111 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
112 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
113 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
114 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
115 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
116 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
117 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
118 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
119 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
120 Closes: #88464, #77743
121 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
122 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
123 us to deal with that gracefully.
124 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
126 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
127 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
128 a while, Closes: #51225
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
132 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
138 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
141 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
145 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
149 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
154 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
157 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
158 don't make packlist files.
159 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
160 debhelper coding standards.
161 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
162 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
166 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
169 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
173 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
176 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
177 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
178 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
179 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
180 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
181 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
182 but is mildly deprecated.
183 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
184 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
185 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
186 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
187 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
188 switching to statoverrides..
189 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
190 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
191 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
192 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
193 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
194 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
196 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
197 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
198 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
199 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
200 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
201 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
202 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
203 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
204 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
206 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
207 variable names, pod man pages).
208 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
209 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
210 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
211 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
212 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
213 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
214 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
218 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
224 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
231 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
234 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
238 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
240 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
241 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
242 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
246 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
248 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
249 they were previously ignored.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
253 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
255 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
256 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
260 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
262 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
263 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
264 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
268 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
270 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
274 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
276 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
277 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
281 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
283 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
284 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
285 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
286 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
287 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
288 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
289 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
290 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
291 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
292 it is an obsolete program.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
296 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
298 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
302 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
306 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
308 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
312 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
314 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
316 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
318 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
322 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
328 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
330 * typo: Closes, #78567
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
334 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
340 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
346 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
348 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
349 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
350 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
351 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
352 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
353 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
357 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
360 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
365 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
368 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
369 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
370 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
371 backwards-compatability.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
375 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
377 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
378 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
379 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
380 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
381 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
382 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
383 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
385 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
386 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
387 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
389 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
391 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
392 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
393 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
394 should now be raised to severity important..
395 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
396 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
400 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
403 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
408 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Typo, Closes: #77441
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
414 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Completed the fix from the last version.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
420 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
426 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
428 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
433 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
436 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
437 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
438 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
439 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
443 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
449 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
452 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
453 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
454 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
455 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
456 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
457 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
462 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
465 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
469 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
475 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
478 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
483 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
486 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
487 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
488 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
489 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
493 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
497 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
500 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
503 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
504 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
507 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
509 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
510 the TODO entry about it.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
514 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
521 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
524 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
525 prevent that. Closes: #73052
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
529 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Typo, Closes: #72932
532 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
533 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
534 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
535 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
539 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
545 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
552 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
555 (this appears to be logal).
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
559 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
562 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
563 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
564 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
565 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
569 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
575 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
577 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
578 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
579 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
580 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
581 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
585 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
591 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
594 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
598 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
605 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
608 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
609 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
610 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
615 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
622 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
628 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
630 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
631 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
632 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
633 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
634 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
635 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
636 notice until v2 is complete.
637 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
638 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
639 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
640 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
641 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
642 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
644 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
645 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
646 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
647 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
651 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
657 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
664 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
667 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
671 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
678 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
681 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
682 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
683 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
684 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
689 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
692 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
693 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
694 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
699 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
702 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
703 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
707 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
710 just skip files that end in -\d+.
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
714 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
717 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
721 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
728 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
730 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
731 depend on the build and install targets.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
735 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
738 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
742 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
749 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
755 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
761 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
764 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
765 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
766 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
767 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
768 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
769 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
771 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
772 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
773 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
774 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
775 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
776 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
777 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
781 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
787 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
793 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
796 right place. Closes: #55065
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
800 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
807 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Make all examples rules files executable.
810 * Copyright date updates.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
814 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
817 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
822 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
828 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
835 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
841 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
847 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
853 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
856 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
857 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
858 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
859 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
860 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
861 bits until all files have been registered.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
865 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_installmanpages:
868 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
869 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
870 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
871 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
872 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
873 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
874 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
875 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
876 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
877 otherwise change the result at all.
879 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
880 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
881 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
882 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
883 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
888 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
894 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
897 act on files that don't exist.
898 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
899 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
900 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
902 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
903 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
904 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
905 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
909 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
915 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
921 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
924 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
928 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
931 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
933 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
934 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
935 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
939 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
942 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
943 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
944 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
945 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
946 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
947 does not compress. Closes: #41733
948 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
950 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
952 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
956 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
963 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
969 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
975 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
978 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
982 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
988 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
994 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
997 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
998 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
999 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1000 I made some changes, though:
1001 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1002 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1003 that is a clear violation of policy.
1004 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1005 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1006 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1007 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1008 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1009 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1010 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1011 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1012 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1014 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1024 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1027 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1034 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1035 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1040 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1046 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1053 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1056 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1057 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1058 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1059 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1060 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1061 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1062 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1066 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1072 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1076 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1077 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1087 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1090 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1094 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1097 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1098 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1102 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1104 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1109 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1113 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1117 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1120 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1121 for the dependancies to be generated.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1125 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1128 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1132 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1135 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1136 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1137 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1142 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1145 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1146 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1150 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1156 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1162 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1165 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1169 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1175 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1178 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1179 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1180 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1181 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1182 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1183 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1184 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1185 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1186 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1187 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1188 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1189 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1193 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1196 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1197 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1199 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1200 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1201 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1202 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1203 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1204 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1206 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1207 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1211 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1214 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1218 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1225 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1228 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1233 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1236 for building debhelper.
1237 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1241 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1248 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1251 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1255 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1258 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1259 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1260 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1261 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1262 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1263 it's always available.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1270 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1271 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1272 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1276 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1279 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1280 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1284 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1290 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1293 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1297 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1306 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1307 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1308 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1312 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1315 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1320 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1323 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1324 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1326 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1327 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1331 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1343 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1346 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1350 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1353 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1354 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1356 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1363 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1364 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1365 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1369 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1372 things if CDPATH is set.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1376 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1382 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1385 seems to make sense for the transition.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1389 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1392 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1397 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1400 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1401 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1405 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1408 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1415 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1416 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1417 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1418 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1428 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1431 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1432 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1433 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1434 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1435 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1436 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1437 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1438 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1439 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1440 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1445 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1448 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1449 * README: mention doc/v2
1450 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1451 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1455 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1457 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1458 be using this script RSN.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1462 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1465 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1466 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1467 more than 1 init script.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1471 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1474 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1478 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Changed perl version detection.
1481 * Changed call to find.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1485 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1488 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1490 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1495 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Really include dh_installpam.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1501 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1504 * Wrote man page for same.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1508 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1511 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1512 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1517 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1524 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1527 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1528 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1529 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1530 x bit was being set!
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1534 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1537 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1538 well. (Closes: 38900)
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1542 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1545 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1546 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1550 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1556 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1563 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1569 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1572 help from Julian Gilbey.
1573 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1574 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1575 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1576 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1577 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1578 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1579 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1584 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1590 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1597 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1603 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1609 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1612 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1616 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1619 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1623 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1626 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1630 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1636 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1639 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1643 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1649 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1655 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1658 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1659 may be deleted. (#35845)
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1663 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Various man page enhancements.
1666 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1671 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1674 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1675 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1679 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1682 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1683 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1684 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1686 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1687 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1692 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1698 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Another very minor typo fix.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1704 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Very minor typo fix.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1710 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1713 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1714 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1718 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1724 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1727 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1728 variables properly (#34850).
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1732 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1738 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1741 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1742 (automatically generated by build process).
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1746 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1748 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1752 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1755 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1756 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1758 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1762 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1765 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1769 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * README: minor typo fix.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1775 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1778 leave it at that. :-)
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1782 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1788 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1794 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1797 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1798 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1799 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1803 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1806 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1810 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1813 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1817 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1820 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1821 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1822 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1823 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1827 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1830 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1831 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1832 Craig Small for spotting this.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1836 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1839 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1840 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1844 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1850 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1853 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1857 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1859 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1860 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1861 working on the last version of debhelper.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1865 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1868 being made. (#23255)
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1872 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1878 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1881 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1885 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1888 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1889 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1890 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1891 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1895 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1898 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1899 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1900 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1901 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1903 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1904 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1906 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1911 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1917 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1923 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1926 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1927 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1928 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1929 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1930 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1931 suidregister actually supports it.
1932 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1933 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1937 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1944 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1947 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1948 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1949 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1950 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1951 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1952 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1953 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1957 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1959 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1960 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1964 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1967 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1968 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1969 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1970 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1974 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1977 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1979 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1980 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1981 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1982 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1983 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1984 effect, either. (#30118)
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1988 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1994 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1997 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1998 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2002 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2008 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2011 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2012 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2013 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2014 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2018 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2021 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2022 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2026 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2032 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2035 packages, painlessly.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2039 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2045 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2051 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2057 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * The perl conversion is complete.
2061 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2063 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2064 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2065 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2070 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2073 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2074 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2075 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2079 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2082 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2084 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2086 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2087 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2091 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2094 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2095 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2099 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2105 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2108 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2109 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2110 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2111 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2112 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2116 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2119 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2120 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2121 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2122 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2126 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2129 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2133 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2136 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2137 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2138 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2139 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2140 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2141 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2142 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2143 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2147 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2153 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2156 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2157 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2158 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2163 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2166 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2170 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2173 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2177 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2180 sections of shared libraries.
2181 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2182 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2183 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2184 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2185 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2186 things you don't want them to.
2187 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2188 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2192 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2195 shared libraries. (#26414)
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2199 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2201 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2202 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2203 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2204 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2208 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2212 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2214 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2215 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2216 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2217 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2218 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2222 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2225 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2232 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2233 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2238 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2241 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2245 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2248 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2249 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2250 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2251 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2252 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2254 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2255 remove debian/files properly.
2256 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2257 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2258 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2259 * Removed bogus menu file.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2263 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2266 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2270 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2273 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2274 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2275 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2276 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2277 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2278 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2282 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2285 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2286 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2287 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2288 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2292 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2299 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2302 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2303 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2305 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2306 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2307 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2308 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2309 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2310 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2314 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2317 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2318 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2319 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2320 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2321 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2322 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2323 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2324 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2325 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2326 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2327 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2328 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2329 passed any switches.
2330 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2334 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2337 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2338 at all for a long while.
2339 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2340 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2341 large chunks in the process.
2342 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2343 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2344 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2349 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2352 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2354 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2359 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2362 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2363 that don't always have the same files in them.
2364 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2365 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2366 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2370 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2374 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2375 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2376 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2377 updating 27 man pages.
2378 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2379 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2380 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2381 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2382 programs act on. (#25247)
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2386 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2390 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2391 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2392 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2393 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2394 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2395 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2400 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2407 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2414 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2417 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2421 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2427 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2430 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2431 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2432 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2433 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2434 package by accident.
2435 * Is version 1.0 next?
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2439 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2442 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2443 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2447 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2450 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2451 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2452 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2453 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2454 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2456 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2461 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2464 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2465 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2469 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2472 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2476 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2479 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2480 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2485 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2491 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2494 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2495 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2500 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2506 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2509 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2510 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2511 past week. Thanks, guys!
2513 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2514 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2515 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2516 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2517 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2518 would do in the same situation.
2519 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2520 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2522 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2524 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2525 permissions changed.
2526 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2527 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2528 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2529 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2530 files are treated identically.
2531 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2532 * Minor man page fixes.
2533 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2534 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2535 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2539 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2542 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2543 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2544 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2545 use -X multiple times, too.
2546 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2547 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2551 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2554 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2555 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2559 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2562 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2566 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2569 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2570 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2571 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2572 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2573 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2574 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2575 shape if you're starting a new package.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2579 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2582 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2586 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2589 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2590 because of missing symlinks.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2594 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2600 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2603 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2604 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2605 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2606 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2607 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2609 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2610 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2614 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2616 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2617 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2618 to be changed after the fact :-)
2619 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2623 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2626 no version string after the -V.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2630 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2632 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2633 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2638 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2641 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2645 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2648 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2649 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2650 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2651 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2652 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2653 I always welcome corrections!
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2657 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2663 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2666 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2667 * Documented this new switch.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2671 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2674 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2675 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2676 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2677 no packages use the old behavior.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2681 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2684 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2685 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2689 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2692 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2696 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2702 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2705 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2709 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2712 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2713 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2714 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2718 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2724 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2727 into the source package by accident.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2731 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2734 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2735 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2736 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2737 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2738 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2739 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2744 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2748 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2749 inspired to implement some of it.
2750 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2754 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2757 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2761 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2764 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2765 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2769 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2772 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2773 have done.) (#17598)
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2777 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2783 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2789 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2792 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2796 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2799 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2800 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2804 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2807 argument processor in perl.
2808 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2809 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2810 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2811 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2815 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2818 type directories. (#16933)
2819 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2820 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2821 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2822 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2823 are supported. (#16935)
2824 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2829 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2832 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2836 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2840 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2841 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2842 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2843 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2844 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2845 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2849 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2852 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2853 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2855 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2856 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2857 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2858 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2859 a given package, or -i or -a.
2860 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2861 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2862 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2863 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2864 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2865 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2866 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2867 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2868 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2870 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2871 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2872 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2876 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2879 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2880 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2885 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2888 does not have a section.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2892 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2895 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2896 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2897 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2901 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Fixed typo #16215.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2907 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2910 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2911 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2912 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2913 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2914 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2919 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2922 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2923 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2924 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2929 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2935 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2941 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2944 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2945 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2946 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2947 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2948 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2949 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2953 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2959 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2962 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2966 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2969 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2970 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2971 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2975 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2978 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2982 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2988 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2991 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2995 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2998 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3002 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3008 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3011 postinst, postrm, etc.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3015 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3021 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3024 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3025 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3026 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3027 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3028 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3032 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3035 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3036 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3040 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3043 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3047 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3050 installing package files into.
3051 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3056 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3060 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3064 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3070 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3073 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3077 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3080 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3081 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3082 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3083 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3087 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3089 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3090 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3091 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3092 multiple binary packages.
3093 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3094 should rebuild them with this version.
3095 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3099 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3102 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3106 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3109 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3113 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3116 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3117 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3118 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3119 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3120 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3121 debian/README.debian.
3122 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3123 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3124 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3125 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3126 in a few situations.)
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3130 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3136 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3142 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3145 * Fixed several man pages.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3149 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3152 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3153 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3157 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3160 is ready for general use.
3161 * Added man pages for all commands.
3162 * Multiple binary package support.
3163 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3164 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3165 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3167 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3168 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3169 auto-installed as parameters.
3170 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3172 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3175 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3176 the package build directory it is to act on.
3177 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3178 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3179 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3183 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3185 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3186 ready to replace debstd.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400