1 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
6 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
7 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
8 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
12 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
15 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
16 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
17 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
18 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
19 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extentions dh_compress
20 does not compress. Closes: #41733
21 * Also, made all extentions dh_compress skips be looked at case
23 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
25 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
29 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
36 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
42 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
48 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
51 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
55 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
61 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
67 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
70 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
71 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
72 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
73 I made some changes, though:
74 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
75 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
76 that is a clear violation of policy.
77 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
78 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
79 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
80 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
81 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
82 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
83 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
84 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
85 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
87 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
91 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
97 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
100 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
104 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
106 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
107 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
108 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
113 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
119 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
126 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
129 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
130 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
131 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
132 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
133 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
134 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
135 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
139 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
145 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
149 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
150 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
154 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
160 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
163 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
167 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
170 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
171 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
175 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
177 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
182 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
186 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
190 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
192 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
193 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
194 for the dependancies to be generated.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
198 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
201 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
205 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
208 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
209 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
210 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
218 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
219 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
223 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
229 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
235 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
238 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
242 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
248 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
250 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
251 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
252 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
253 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
254 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
255 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
256 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
257 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
258 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
259 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
260 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
261 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
262 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
266 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
268 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
269 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
270 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
272 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
273 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
274 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
275 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
276 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
277 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
279 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
280 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
284 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
287 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
291 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
298 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
300 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
301 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
306 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
309 for building debhelper.
310 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
314 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
321 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Fixed makefile commit target.
324 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
328 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
331 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
332 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
333 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
334 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
335 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
336 it's always available.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
340 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
343 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
344 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
345 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
349 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
352 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
353 modules. (Closes: #42171)
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
357 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
363 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
366 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
370 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
376 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
379 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
380 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
381 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
385 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
388 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
393 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
396 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
397 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
399 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
400 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
404 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
410 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
416 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
418 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
419 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
423 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
426 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
427 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
429 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
433 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
436 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
437 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
438 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
442 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
445 things if CDPATH is set.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
449 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
455 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
458 seems to make sense for the transition.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
462 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
465 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
470 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
473 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
474 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
478 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
481 that version. (Closes: #40589)
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
485 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
487 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
488 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
489 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
490 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
491 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
495 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
501 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
504 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
505 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
506 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
507 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
508 * debhelper.1: documented this.
509 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
510 current compatability level is equal to that number.
511 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
512 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
513 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
518 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
520 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
521 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
522 * README: mention doc/v2
523 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
524 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
528 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
530 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
531 be using this script RSN.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
535 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
538 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
539 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
540 more than 1 init script.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
544 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
547 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
551 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Changed perl version detection.
554 * Changed call to find.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
558 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
561 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
563 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
568 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Really include dh_installpam.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
574 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
577 * Wrote man page for same.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
581 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
584 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
585 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
590 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
597 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
600 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
601 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
602 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
607 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
610 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
611 well. (Closes: 38900)
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
615 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
618 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
619 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
623 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
629 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
636 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
642 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
644 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
645 help from Julian Gilbey.
646 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
647 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
648 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
649 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
650 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
651 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
652 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
657 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
663 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
665 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
670 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
676 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
682 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
685 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
689 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
692 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
696 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
699 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
703 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
709 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
712 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
716 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
718 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
722 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
724 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
728 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
731 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
732 may be deleted. (#35845)
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
736 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Various man page enhancements.
739 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
744 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
747 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
748 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
752 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
755 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
756 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
757 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
759 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
760 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
765 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
771 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Another very minor typo fix.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
777 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Very minor typo fix.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
783 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
786 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
787 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
791 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
797 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
799 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
800 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
801 variables properly (#34850).
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
805 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
807 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
811 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
814 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
815 (automatically generated by build process).
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
819 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
821 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
825 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
828 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
829 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
831 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
835 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
838 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
842 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
844 * README: minor typo fix.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
848 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
851 leave it at that. :-)
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
855 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
861 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
867 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
870 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
871 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
872 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
876 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
879 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
883 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
886 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
890 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
893 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
894 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
895 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
896 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
900 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
903 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
904 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
905 Craig Small for spotting this.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
909 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
912 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
913 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
917 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
923 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
926 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
930 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
932 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
933 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
934 working on the last version of debhelper.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
938 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
945 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
947 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
951 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
954 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
958 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
960 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
961 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
962 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
963 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
964 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
968 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
971 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
972 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
973 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
974 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
976 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
977 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
979 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
984 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
986 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
990 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
996 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
999 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1000 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1001 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1002 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1003 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1004 suidregister actually supports it.
1005 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1006 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1010 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1017 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1020 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1021 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1022 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1023 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1024 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1025 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1026 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1030 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1032 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1033 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1037 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1040 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1041 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1042 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1043 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1047 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1050 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1052 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1053 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1054 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1055 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1056 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1057 effect, either. (#30118)
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1061 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1067 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1070 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1071 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1075 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1081 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1084 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1085 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1086 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1087 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1091 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1094 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1095 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1099 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1105 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1108 packages, painlessly.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1112 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1118 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1124 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1130 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * The perl conversion is complete.
1134 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1136 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1137 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1138 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1143 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1146 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1147 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1148 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1152 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1155 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1157 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1159 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1160 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1164 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1167 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1168 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1172 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1178 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1181 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1182 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1183 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1184 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1185 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1189 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1192 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1193 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1194 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1195 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1199 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1202 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1206 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1209 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1210 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1211 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1212 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1213 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1214 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1215 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1216 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1220 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1226 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1229 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1230 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1231 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1236 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1239 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1243 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1246 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1250 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1253 sections of shared libraries.
1254 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1255 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1256 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1257 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1258 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1259 things you don't want them to.
1260 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1261 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1265 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1268 shared libraries. (#26414)
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1272 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1274 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1275 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1276 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1277 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1281 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1285 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1287 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1288 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1289 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1290 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1291 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1295 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1298 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1302 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1305 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1306 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1311 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1314 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1318 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1321 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1322 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1323 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1324 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1325 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1327 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1328 remove debian/files properly.
1329 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1330 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1331 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1332 * Removed bogus menu file.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1336 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1339 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1343 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1346 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1347 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1348 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1349 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1350 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1351 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1355 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1358 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1359 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1360 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1361 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1365 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1372 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1375 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1376 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1378 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1379 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1380 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1381 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1382 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1383 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1387 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1390 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1391 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1392 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1393 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1394 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1395 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1396 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1397 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1398 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1399 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1400 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1401 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1402 passed any switches.
1403 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1407 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1410 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1411 at all for a long while.
1412 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1413 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1414 large chunks in the process.
1415 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1416 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1417 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1422 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1425 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1427 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1432 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1435 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1436 that don't always have the same files in them.
1437 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1438 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1439 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1443 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1447 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1448 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1449 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1450 updating 27 man pages.
1451 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1452 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1453 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1454 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1455 programs act on. (#25247)
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1459 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1463 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1464 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1465 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1466 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1467 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1468 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1473 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1480 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1487 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1490 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1494 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1500 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1503 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1504 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1505 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1506 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1507 package by accident.
1508 * Is version 1.0 next?
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1512 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1515 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1516 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1520 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1523 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1524 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1525 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1526 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1527 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1529 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1534 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1537 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1538 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1542 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1545 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1549 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1552 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1553 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1558 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1564 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1567 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1568 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1573 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1579 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1582 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1583 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1584 past week. Thanks, guys!
1586 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1587 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1588 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1589 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1590 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1591 would do in the same situation.
1592 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1593 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1595 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1597 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1598 permissions changed.
1599 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1600 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1601 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1602 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1603 files are treated identically.
1604 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1605 * Minor man page fixes.
1606 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1607 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1608 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1612 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1615 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1616 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1617 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1618 use -X multiple times, too.
1619 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1620 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1624 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1627 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1628 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1632 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1635 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1639 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1642 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1643 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1644 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1645 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1646 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1647 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1648 shape if you're starting a new package.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1652 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1655 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1659 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1662 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1663 because of missing symlinks.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1667 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1673 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1676 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1677 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1678 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1679 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1680 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1682 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1683 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1687 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1689 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1690 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1691 to be changed after the fact :-)
1692 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1696 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1699 no version string after the -V.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1703 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1705 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1706 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1711 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1714 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1718 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1721 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1722 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1723 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1724 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1725 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1726 I always welcome corrections!
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1730 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1736 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1739 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1740 * Documented this new switch.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1744 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1747 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1748 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1749 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1750 no packages use the old behavior.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1754 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1757 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1758 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1762 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1765 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1769 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1775 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1778 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1782 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1785 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1786 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1787 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1791 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1797 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1800 into the source package by accident.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1804 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1807 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1808 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1809 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1810 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1811 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1812 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1817 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1821 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1822 inspired to implement some of it.
1823 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1827 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1830 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1834 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1837 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1838 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1842 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1845 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1846 have done.) (#17598)
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1850 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1856 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1862 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1865 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1869 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1872 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1873 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1877 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1880 argument processor in perl.
1881 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1882 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1883 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1884 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1888 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1891 type directories. (#16933)
1892 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1893 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1894 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1895 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1896 are supported. (#16935)
1897 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1902 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1905 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1909 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1913 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1914 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1915 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1916 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1917 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1918 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1922 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1925 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1926 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1928 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1929 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1930 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1931 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1932 a given package, or -i or -a.
1933 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1934 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1935 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1936 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1937 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1938 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1939 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1940 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1941 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1943 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1944 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1945 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1949 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1952 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1953 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1958 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1961 does not have a section.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1965 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1968 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1969 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1970 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1974 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Fixed typo #16215.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1980 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1983 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1984 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1985 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1986 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1987 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1992 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1995 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1996 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1997 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2002 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2008 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2014 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2017 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2018 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2019 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2020 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2021 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2022 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2026 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2032 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2035 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2039 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2042 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2043 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2044 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2048 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2051 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2055 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2061 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2064 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2068 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2071 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2075 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2081 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2084 postinst, postrm, etc.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2088 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2094 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2097 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2098 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2099 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2100 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2101 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2105 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2108 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2109 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2113 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2116 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2120 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2123 installing package files into.
2124 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2129 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2133 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2137 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2143 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2146 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2150 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2153 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2154 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2155 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2156 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2160 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2162 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2163 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2164 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2165 multiple binary packages.
2166 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2167 should rebuild them with this version.
2168 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2172 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2175 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2179 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2182 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2186 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2189 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2190 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2191 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2192 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2193 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2194 debian/README.debian.
2195 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2196 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2197 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2198 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2199 in a few situations.)
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2203 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2209 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2215 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2218 * Fixed several man pages.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2222 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2225 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2226 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2230 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2233 is ready for general use.
2234 * Added man pages for all commands.
2235 * Multiple binary package support.
2236 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2237 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2238 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2240 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2241 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2242 auto-installed as parameters.
2243 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2245 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2248 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2249 the package build directory it is to act on.
2250 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2251 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2252 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2256 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2258 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2259 ready to replace debstd.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400