1 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
5 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
7 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
9 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
11 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
15 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
21 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
23 * typo: Closes, #78567
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
27 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
33 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
39 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
41 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
42 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
43 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
44 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
45 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
46 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
50 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
53 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
58 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
61 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
62 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
63 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
64 backwards-compatability.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
68 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
70 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
71 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
72 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
73 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
74 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
75 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
76 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
78 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
79 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
80 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
82 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
84 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
85 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
86 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
87 should now be raised to severity important..
88 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
89 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
93 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
96 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
101 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Typo, Closes: #77441
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
107 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Completed the fix from the last version.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
113 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
119 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
121 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
126 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
129 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
130 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
131 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
132 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
136 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
142 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
145 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
146 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
147 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
148 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
149 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
150 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
155 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
158 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
162 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
168 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
171 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
176 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
179 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
180 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
181 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
182 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
186 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
190 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
193 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
196 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
197 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
200 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
202 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
203 the TODO entry about it.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
207 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
214 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
217 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
218 prevent that. Closes: #73052
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
222 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Typo, Closes: #72932
225 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
226 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
227 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
228 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
232 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
238 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
245 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
248 (this appears to be logal).
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
252 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
255 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
256 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
257 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
258 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
262 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
268 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
270 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
271 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
272 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
273 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
274 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
278 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
284 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
287 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
291 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
298 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
301 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
302 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
303 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
308 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
315 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
321 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
323 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
324 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
325 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
326 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
327 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
328 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
329 notice until v2 is complete.
330 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
331 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
332 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
333 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
334 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
335 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
337 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
338 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
339 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
340 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
344 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
350 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
357 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
360 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
364 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
371 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
374 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
375 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
376 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
377 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
382 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
385 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
386 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
387 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
392 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
395 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
396 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
400 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
403 just skip files that end in -\d+.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
407 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
410 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
414 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
421 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
423 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
424 depend on the build and install targets.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
428 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
431 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
435 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
442 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
448 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
454 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
457 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
458 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
459 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
460 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
461 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
462 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
464 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
465 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
466 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
467 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
468 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
469 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
470 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
474 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
480 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
486 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
489 right place. Closes: #55065
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
493 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
500 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Make all examples rules files executable.
503 * Copyright date updates.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
507 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
510 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
515 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
521 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
528 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
534 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
540 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
546 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
549 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
550 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
551 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
552 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
553 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
554 bits until all files have been registered.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
558 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installmanpages:
561 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
562 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
563 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
564 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
565 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
566 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
567 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
568 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
569 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
570 otherwise change the result at all.
572 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
573 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
574 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
575 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
576 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
581 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
587 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
590 act on files that don't exist.
591 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
592 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
593 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
595 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
596 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
597 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
598 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
602 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
608 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
614 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
617 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
621 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
624 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
626 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
627 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
628 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
632 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
635 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
636 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
637 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
638 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
639 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
640 does not compress. Closes: #41733
641 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
643 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
645 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
649 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
656 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
662 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
668 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
671 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
675 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
681 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
687 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
690 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
691 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
692 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
693 I made some changes, though:
694 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
695 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
696 that is a clear violation of policy.
697 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
698 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
699 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
700 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
701 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
702 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
703 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
704 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
705 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
707 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
711 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
717 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
720 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
724 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
727 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
728 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
733 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
739 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
746 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
749 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
750 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
751 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
752 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
753 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
754 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
755 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
759 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
765 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
769 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
770 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
774 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
780 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
783 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
787 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
790 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
791 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
795 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
797 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
802 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
806 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
810 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
812 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
813 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
814 for the dependancies to be generated.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
818 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
821 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
825 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
828 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
829 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
830 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
835 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
838 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
839 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
843 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
849 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
855 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
858 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
862 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
868 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
870 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
871 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
872 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
873 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
874 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
875 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
876 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
877 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
878 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
879 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
880 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
881 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
882 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
886 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
888 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
889 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
890 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
892 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
893 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
894 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
895 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
896 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
897 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
899 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
900 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
904 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
907 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
911 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
918 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
920 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
921 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
926 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
929 for building debhelper.
930 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
934 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
941 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Fixed makefile commit target.
944 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
948 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
951 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
952 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
953 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
954 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
955 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
956 it's always available.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
960 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
963 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
964 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
965 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
969 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
972 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
973 modules. (Closes: #42171)
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
983 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
986 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
990 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
999 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1000 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1001 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1005 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1008 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1013 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1016 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1017 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1019 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1020 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1024 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1030 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1036 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1039 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1043 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1046 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1047 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1049 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1053 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1056 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1057 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1058 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1062 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1065 things if CDPATH is set.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1069 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1075 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1078 seems to make sense for the transition.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1082 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1085 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1090 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1093 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1094 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1098 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1101 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1105 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1108 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1109 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1110 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1111 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1115 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1121 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1124 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1125 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1126 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1127 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1128 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1129 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1130 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1131 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1132 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1133 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1138 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1141 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1142 * README: mention doc/v2
1143 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1144 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1148 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1150 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1151 be using this script RSN.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1155 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1158 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1159 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1160 more than 1 init script.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1164 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1167 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1171 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Changed perl version detection.
1174 * Changed call to find.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1178 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1181 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1183 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1188 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Really include dh_installpam.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1194 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1197 * Wrote man page for same.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1201 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1204 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1205 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1210 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1217 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1220 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1221 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1222 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1223 x bit was being set!
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1227 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1230 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1231 well. (Closes: 38900)
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1235 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1238 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1239 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1243 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1249 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1256 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1262 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1265 help from Julian Gilbey.
1266 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1267 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1268 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1269 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1270 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1271 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1272 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1277 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1283 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1290 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1296 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1302 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1305 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1309 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1312 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1316 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1319 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1323 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1329 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1332 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1336 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1342 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1348 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1351 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1352 may be deleted. (#35845)
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1356 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Various man page enhancements.
1359 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1364 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1367 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1368 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1372 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1375 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1376 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1377 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1379 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1380 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1385 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1391 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Another very minor typo fix.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1397 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Very minor typo fix.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1403 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1406 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1407 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1411 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1417 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1420 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1421 variables properly (#34850).
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1425 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1431 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1434 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1435 (automatically generated by build process).
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1439 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1441 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1445 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1448 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1449 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1451 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1455 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1458 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1462 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * README: minor typo fix.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1468 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1471 leave it at that. :-)
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1475 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1481 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1487 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1490 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1491 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1492 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1496 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1499 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1503 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1506 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1510 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1513 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1514 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1515 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1516 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1520 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1523 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1524 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1525 Craig Small for spotting this.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1529 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1532 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1533 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1537 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1543 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1546 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1550 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1552 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1553 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1554 working on the last version of debhelper.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1558 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1561 being made. (#23255)
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1565 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1571 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1574 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1578 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1581 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1582 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1583 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1584 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1588 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1591 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1592 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1593 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1594 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1596 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1597 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1599 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1604 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1610 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1616 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1619 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1620 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1621 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1622 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1623 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1624 suidregister actually supports it.
1625 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1626 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1630 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1637 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1640 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1641 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1642 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1643 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1644 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1645 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1646 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1650 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1652 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1653 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1657 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1660 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1661 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1662 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1663 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1667 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1670 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1672 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1673 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1674 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1675 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1676 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1677 effect, either. (#30118)
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1681 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1687 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1690 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1691 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1695 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1701 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1704 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1705 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1706 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1707 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1711 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1714 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1715 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1719 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1725 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1728 packages, painlessly.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1732 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1738 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1744 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1750 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * The perl conversion is complete.
1754 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1756 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1757 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1758 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1763 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1766 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1767 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1768 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1772 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1775 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1777 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1779 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1780 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1784 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1787 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1788 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1792 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1798 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1801 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1802 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1803 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1804 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1805 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1812 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1813 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1814 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1815 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1819 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1822 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1826 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1829 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1830 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1831 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1832 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1833 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1834 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1835 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1836 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1840 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1846 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1849 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1850 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1851 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1856 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1859 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1863 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1866 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1870 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1873 sections of shared libraries.
1874 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1875 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1876 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1877 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1878 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1879 things you don't want them to.
1880 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1881 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1885 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1888 shared libraries. (#26414)
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1892 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1894 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1895 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1896 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1897 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1901 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1905 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1907 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1908 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1909 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1910 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1911 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1915 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1918 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1922 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1925 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1926 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1931 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1934 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1938 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1941 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1942 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1943 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1944 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1945 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1947 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1948 remove debian/files properly.
1949 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1950 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1951 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1952 * Removed bogus menu file.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1956 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1959 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1963 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1966 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1967 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1968 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1969 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1970 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1971 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1975 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1978 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1979 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1980 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1981 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1985 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1992 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1995 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1996 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1998 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1999 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2000 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2001 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2002 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2003 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2007 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2010 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2011 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2012 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2013 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2014 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2015 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2016 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2017 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2018 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2019 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2020 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2021 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2022 passed any switches.
2023 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2027 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2030 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2031 at all for a long while.
2032 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2033 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2034 large chunks in the process.
2035 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2036 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2037 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2042 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2045 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2047 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2052 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2055 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2056 that don't always have the same files in them.
2057 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2058 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2059 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2063 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2067 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2068 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2069 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2070 updating 27 man pages.
2071 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2072 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2073 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2074 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2075 programs act on. (#25247)
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2079 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2083 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2084 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2085 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2086 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2087 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2088 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2093 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2100 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2107 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2110 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2114 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2120 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2123 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2124 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2125 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2126 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2127 package by accident.
2128 * Is version 1.0 next?
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2132 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2135 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2136 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2140 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2143 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2144 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2145 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2146 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2147 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2149 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2154 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2157 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2158 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2162 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2165 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2169 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2172 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2173 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2178 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2184 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2187 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2188 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2193 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2199 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2202 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2203 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2204 past week. Thanks, guys!
2206 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2207 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2208 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2209 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2210 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2211 would do in the same situation.
2212 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2213 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2215 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2217 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2218 permissions changed.
2219 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2220 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2221 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2222 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2223 files are treated identically.
2224 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2225 * Minor man page fixes.
2226 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2227 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2228 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2232 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2235 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2236 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2237 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2238 use -X multiple times, too.
2239 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2240 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2244 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2247 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2248 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2252 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2255 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2259 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2262 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2263 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2264 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2265 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2266 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2267 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2268 shape if you're starting a new package.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2272 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2275 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2279 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2282 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2283 because of missing symlinks.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2287 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2293 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2296 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2297 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2298 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2299 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2300 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2302 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2303 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2307 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2309 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2310 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2311 to be changed after the fact :-)
2312 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2316 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2319 no version string after the -V.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2323 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2325 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2326 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2331 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2334 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2338 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2341 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2342 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2343 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2344 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2345 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2346 I always welcome corrections!
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2350 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2356 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2359 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2360 * Documented this new switch.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2364 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2367 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2368 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2369 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2370 no packages use the old behavior.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2374 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2377 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2378 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2382 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2385 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2389 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2395 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2398 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2402 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2405 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2406 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2407 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2411 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2417 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2420 into the source package by accident.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2424 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2427 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2428 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2429 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2430 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2431 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2432 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2437 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2441 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2442 inspired to implement some of it.
2443 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2447 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2450 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2454 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2457 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2458 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2462 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2465 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2466 have done.) (#17598)
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2470 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2476 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2482 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2485 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2489 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2492 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2493 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2497 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2500 argument processor in perl.
2501 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2502 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2503 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2504 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2508 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2511 type directories. (#16933)
2512 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2513 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2514 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2515 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2516 are supported. (#16935)
2517 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2522 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2525 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2529 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2533 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2534 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2535 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2536 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2537 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2538 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2542 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2545 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2546 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2548 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2549 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2550 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2551 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2552 a given package, or -i or -a.
2553 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2554 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2555 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2556 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2557 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2558 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2559 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2560 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2561 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2563 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2564 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2565 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2569 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2572 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2573 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2578 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2581 does not have a section.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2585 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2588 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2589 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2590 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2594 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Fixed typo #16215.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2600 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2603 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2604 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2605 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2606 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2607 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2612 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2615 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2616 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2617 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2622 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2628 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2634 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2637 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2638 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2639 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2640 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2641 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2642 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2646 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2652 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2655 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2659 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2662 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2663 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2664 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2668 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2671 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2675 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2681 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2684 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2688 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2691 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2695 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2701 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2704 postinst, postrm, etc.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2708 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2714 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2717 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2718 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2719 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2720 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2721 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2725 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2728 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2729 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2733 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2736 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2740 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2743 installing package files into.
2744 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2749 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2753 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2757 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2763 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2766 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2770 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2773 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2774 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2775 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2776 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2780 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2782 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2783 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2784 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2785 multiple binary packages.
2786 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2787 should rebuild them with this version.
2788 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2792 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2795 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2799 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2802 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2806 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2809 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2810 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2811 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2812 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2813 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2814 debian/README.debian.
2815 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2816 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2817 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2818 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2819 in a few situations.)
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2823 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2829 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2835 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2838 * Fixed several man pages.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2842 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2845 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2846 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2850 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2853 is ready for general use.
2854 * Added man pages for all commands.
2855 * Multiple binary package support.
2856 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2857 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2858 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2860 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2861 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2862 auto-installed as parameters.
2863 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2865 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2868 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2869 the package build directory it is to act on.
2870 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2871 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2872 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2876 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2878 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2879 ready to replace debstd.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400