1 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
7 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
13 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
16 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
20 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
23 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
24 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
25 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
26 followed. Closes: #85483
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
30 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
32 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
33 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
34 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
38 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
41 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
42 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
43 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
44 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
45 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
46 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
47 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
48 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
49 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
50 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
51 Closes: #88464, #77743
52 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
53 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
54 us to deal with that gracefully.
55 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
57 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
58 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
59 a while, Closes: #51225
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
63 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
69 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
72 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
76 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
80 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
85 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
88 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
89 don't make packlist files.
90 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
91 debhelper coding standards.
92 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
93 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
97 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
100 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
104 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
107 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
108 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
109 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
110 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
111 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
112 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
113 but is mildly deprecated.
114 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
115 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
116 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
117 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
118 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
119 switching to statoverrides..
120 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
121 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
122 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
123 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
124 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
125 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
127 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
128 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
129 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
130 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
131 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
132 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
133 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
134 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
135 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
137 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
138 variable names, pod man pages).
139 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
140 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
141 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
142 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
143 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
144 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
145 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
149 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
155 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
162 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
165 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
169 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
171 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
172 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
173 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
177 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
179 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
180 they were previously ignored.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
184 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
186 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
187 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
191 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
193 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
194 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
195 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
199 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
201 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
205 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
207 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
208 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
212 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
214 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
215 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
216 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
217 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
218 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
219 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
220 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
221 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
222 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
223 it is an obsolete program.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
227 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
229 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
233 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
237 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
239 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
243 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
245 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
247 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
249 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
253 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
259 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
261 * typo: Closes, #78567
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
265 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
271 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
277 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
279 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
280 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
281 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
282 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
283 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
284 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
288 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
291 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
296 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
299 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
300 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
301 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
302 backwards-compatability.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
306 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
308 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
309 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
310 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
311 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
312 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
313 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
314 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
316 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
317 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
318 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
320 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
322 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
323 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
324 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
325 should now be raised to severity important..
326 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
327 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
331 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
334 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
339 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Typo, Closes: #77441
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
345 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Completed the fix from the last version.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
351 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
357 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
359 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
364 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
367 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
368 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
369 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
370 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
374 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
380 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
383 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
384 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
385 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
386 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
387 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
388 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
393 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
396 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
400 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
406 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
409 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
414 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
417 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
418 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
419 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
420 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
424 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
428 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
431 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
434 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
435 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
438 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
440 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
441 the TODO entry about it.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
445 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
452 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
455 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
456 prevent that. Closes: #73052
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
460 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Typo, Closes: #72932
463 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
464 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
465 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
466 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
470 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
476 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
483 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
486 (this appears to be logal).
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
490 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
493 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
494 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
495 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
496 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
500 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
506 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
508 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
509 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
510 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
511 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
512 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
516 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
522 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
525 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
529 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
536 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
539 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
540 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
541 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
546 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
553 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
559 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
561 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
562 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
563 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
564 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
565 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
566 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
567 notice until v2 is complete.
568 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
569 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
570 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
571 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
572 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
573 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
575 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
576 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
577 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
578 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
582 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
588 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
595 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
598 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
602 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
609 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
612 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
613 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
614 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
615 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
620 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
623 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
624 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
625 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
630 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
633 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
634 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
638 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
641 just skip files that end in -\d+.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
645 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
648 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
652 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
659 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
661 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
662 depend on the build and install targets.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
666 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
669 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
673 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
680 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
686 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
692 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
695 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
696 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
697 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
698 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
699 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
700 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
702 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
703 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
704 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
705 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
706 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
707 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
708 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
712 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
718 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
724 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
727 right place. Closes: #55065
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
731 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
738 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Make all examples rules files executable.
741 * Copyright date updates.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
745 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
748 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
753 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
759 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
766 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
772 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
778 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
784 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
787 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
788 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
789 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
790 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
791 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
792 bits until all files have been registered.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
796 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_installmanpages:
799 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
800 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
801 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
802 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
803 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
804 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
805 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
806 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
807 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
808 otherwise change the result at all.
810 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
811 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
812 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
813 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
814 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
819 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
825 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
828 act on files that don't exist.
829 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
830 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
831 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
833 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
834 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
835 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
836 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
840 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
846 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
852 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
855 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
859 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
862 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
864 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
865 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
866 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
870 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
873 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
874 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
875 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
876 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
877 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
878 does not compress. Closes: #41733
879 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
881 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
883 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
887 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
894 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
900 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
906 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
909 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
913 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
919 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
925 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
928 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
929 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
930 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
931 I made some changes, though:
932 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
933 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
934 that is a clear violation of policy.
935 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
936 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
937 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
938 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
939 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
940 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
941 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
942 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
943 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
945 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
949 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
955 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
958 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
962 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
965 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
966 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
971 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
984 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
987 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
988 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
989 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
990 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
991 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
992 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
993 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
997 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1003 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1007 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1008 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1012 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1021 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1025 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1028 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1029 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1033 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1035 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1040 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1044 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1048 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1051 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1052 for the dependancies to be generated.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1056 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1059 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1063 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1066 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1067 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1068 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1073 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1076 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1077 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1087 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1096 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1100 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1106 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1109 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1110 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1111 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1112 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1113 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1114 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1115 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1116 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1117 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1118 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1119 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1120 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1124 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1127 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1128 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1130 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1131 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1132 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1133 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1134 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1135 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1137 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1138 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1142 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1145 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1149 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1156 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1159 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1164 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1167 for building debhelper.
1168 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1172 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1179 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1182 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1189 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1190 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1191 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1192 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1193 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1194 it's always available.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1198 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1201 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1202 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1203 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1210 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1211 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1215 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1221 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1224 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1228 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1234 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1237 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1238 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1239 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1243 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1246 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1251 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1254 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1255 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1257 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1258 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1262 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1268 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1274 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1277 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1284 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1285 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1287 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1291 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1294 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1295 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1296 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1300 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1303 things if CDPATH is set.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1307 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1316 seems to make sense for the transition.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1320 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1323 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1331 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1332 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1336 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1339 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1343 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1346 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1347 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1348 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1349 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1362 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1363 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1364 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1365 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1366 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1367 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1368 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1369 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1370 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1371 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1376 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1379 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1380 * README: mention doc/v2
1381 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1382 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1386 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1388 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1389 be using this script RSN.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1393 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1396 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1397 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1398 more than 1 init script.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1402 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1405 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1409 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Changed perl version detection.
1412 * Changed call to find.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1416 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1419 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1421 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1426 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Really include dh_installpam.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1432 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1435 * Wrote man page for same.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1439 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1442 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1443 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1448 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1455 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1458 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1459 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1460 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1461 x bit was being set!
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1465 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1468 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1469 well. (Closes: 38900)
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1473 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1476 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1477 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1481 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1487 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1494 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1500 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1503 help from Julian Gilbey.
1504 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1505 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1506 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1507 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1508 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1509 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1510 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1515 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1521 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1528 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1534 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1540 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1543 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1547 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1550 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1554 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1557 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1561 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1567 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1570 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1574 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1580 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1586 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1589 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1590 may be deleted. (#35845)
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1594 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Various man page enhancements.
1597 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1602 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1605 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1606 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1610 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1613 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1614 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1615 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1617 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1618 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1623 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1629 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Another very minor typo fix.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1635 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Very minor typo fix.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1641 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1644 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1645 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1649 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1655 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1658 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1659 variables properly (#34850).
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1663 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1669 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1672 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1673 (automatically generated by build process).
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1677 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1679 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1683 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1686 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1687 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1689 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1693 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1696 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1700 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * README: minor typo fix.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1709 leave it at that. :-)
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1713 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1719 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1725 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1728 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1729 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1730 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1734 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1737 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1741 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1744 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1748 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1751 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1752 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1753 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1754 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1758 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1761 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1762 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1763 Craig Small for spotting this.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1767 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1770 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1771 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1775 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1781 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1784 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1788 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1790 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1791 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1792 working on the last version of debhelper.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1796 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1799 being made. (#23255)
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1803 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1812 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1816 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1819 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1820 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1821 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1822 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1826 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1829 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1830 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1831 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1832 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1834 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1835 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1837 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1842 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1848 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1854 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1857 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1858 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1859 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1860 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1861 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1862 suidregister actually supports it.
1863 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1864 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1868 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1875 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1878 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1879 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1880 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1881 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1882 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1883 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1884 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1888 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1890 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1891 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1895 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1898 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1899 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1900 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1901 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1905 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1908 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1910 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1911 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1912 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1913 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1914 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1915 effect, either. (#30118)
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1919 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1925 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1928 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1929 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1933 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1939 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1942 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1943 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1944 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1945 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1949 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1952 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1953 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1957 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1963 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1966 packages, painlessly.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1970 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1976 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1982 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1988 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * The perl conversion is complete.
1992 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1994 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1995 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1996 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2001 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2004 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2005 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2006 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2010 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2013 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2015 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2017 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2018 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2022 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2025 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2026 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2030 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2036 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2039 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2040 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2041 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2042 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2043 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2047 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2050 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2051 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2052 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2053 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2057 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2060 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2064 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2067 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2068 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2069 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2070 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2071 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2072 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2073 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2074 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2078 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2084 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2087 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2088 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2089 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2094 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2097 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2101 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2104 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2108 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2111 sections of shared libraries.
2112 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2113 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2114 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2115 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2116 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2117 things you don't want them to.
2118 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2119 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2123 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2126 shared libraries. (#26414)
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2130 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2132 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2133 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2134 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2135 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2139 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2143 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2145 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2146 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2147 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2148 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2149 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2153 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2156 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2160 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2163 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2164 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2169 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2172 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2176 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2179 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2180 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2181 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2182 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2183 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2185 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2186 remove debian/files properly.
2187 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2188 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2189 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2190 * Removed bogus menu file.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2194 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2197 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2201 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2204 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2205 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2206 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2207 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2208 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2209 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2213 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2216 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2217 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2218 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2219 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2223 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2230 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2233 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2234 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2236 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2237 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2238 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2239 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2240 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2241 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2245 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2248 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2249 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2250 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2251 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2252 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2253 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2254 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2255 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2256 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2257 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2258 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2259 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2260 passed any switches.
2261 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2265 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2268 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2269 at all for a long while.
2270 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2271 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2272 large chunks in the process.
2273 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2274 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2275 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2280 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2283 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2285 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2290 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2293 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2294 that don't always have the same files in them.
2295 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2296 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2297 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2301 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2305 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2306 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2307 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2308 updating 27 man pages.
2309 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2310 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2311 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2312 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2313 programs act on. (#25247)
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2317 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2321 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2322 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2323 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2324 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2325 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2326 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2331 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2338 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2345 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2348 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2352 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2358 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2361 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2362 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2363 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2364 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2365 package by accident.
2366 * Is version 1.0 next?
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2370 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2373 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2374 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2378 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2381 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2382 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2383 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2384 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2385 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2387 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2392 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2395 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2396 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2400 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2403 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2407 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2410 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2411 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2416 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2422 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2425 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2426 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2431 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2437 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2440 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2441 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2442 past week. Thanks, guys!
2444 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2445 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2446 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2447 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2448 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2449 would do in the same situation.
2450 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2451 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2453 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2455 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2456 permissions changed.
2457 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2458 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2459 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2460 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2461 files are treated identically.
2462 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2463 * Minor man page fixes.
2464 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2465 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2466 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2470 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2473 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2474 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2475 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2476 use -X multiple times, too.
2477 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2478 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2482 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2485 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2486 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2490 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2493 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2497 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2500 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2501 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2502 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2503 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2504 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2505 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2506 shape if you're starting a new package.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2510 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2513 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2517 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2520 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2521 because of missing symlinks.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2525 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2531 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2534 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2535 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2536 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2537 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2538 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2540 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2541 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2545 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2547 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2548 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2549 to be changed after the fact :-)
2550 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2554 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2557 no version string after the -V.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2561 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2563 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2564 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2569 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2572 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2576 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2579 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2580 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2581 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2582 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2583 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2584 I always welcome corrections!
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2588 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2594 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2597 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2598 * Documented this new switch.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2602 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2605 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2606 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2607 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2608 no packages use the old behavior.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2612 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2615 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2616 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2620 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2623 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2627 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2633 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2636 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2640 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2643 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2644 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2645 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2649 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2655 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2658 into the source package by accident.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2662 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2665 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2666 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2667 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2668 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2669 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2670 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2675 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2679 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2680 inspired to implement some of it.
2681 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2685 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2688 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2692 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2695 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2696 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2700 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2703 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2704 have done.) (#17598)
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2708 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2714 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2720 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2723 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2727 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2730 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2731 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2735 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2738 argument processor in perl.
2739 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2740 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2741 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2742 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2746 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2749 type directories. (#16933)
2750 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2751 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2752 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2753 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2754 are supported. (#16935)
2755 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2760 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2763 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2767 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2771 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2772 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2773 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2774 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2775 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2776 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2780 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2783 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2784 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2786 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2787 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2788 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2789 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2790 a given package, or -i or -a.
2791 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2792 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2793 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2794 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2795 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2796 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2797 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2798 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2799 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2801 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2802 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2803 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2807 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2810 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2811 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2816 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2819 does not have a section.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2823 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2826 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2827 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2828 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2832 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Fixed typo #16215.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2838 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2841 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2842 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2843 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2844 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2845 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2850 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2853 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2854 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2855 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2860 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2866 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2872 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2875 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2876 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2877 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2878 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2879 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2880 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2884 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2890 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2893 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2897 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2900 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2901 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2902 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2906 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2909 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2913 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2919 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2922 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2926 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2929 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2933 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2939 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2942 postinst, postrm, etc.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2946 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2952 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2955 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2956 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2957 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2958 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2959 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2963 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2966 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2967 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2971 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2974 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2978 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2981 installing package files into.
2982 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2987 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2991 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2995 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3001 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3004 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3008 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3011 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3012 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3013 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3014 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3018 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3020 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3021 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3022 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3023 multiple binary packages.
3024 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3025 should rebuild them with this version.
3026 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3030 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3033 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3037 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3040 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3044 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3047 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3048 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3049 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3050 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3051 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3052 debian/README.debian.
3053 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3054 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3055 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3056 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3057 in a few situations.)
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3061 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3067 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3073 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3076 * Fixed several man pages.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3080 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3083 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3084 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3088 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3091 is ready for general use.
3092 * Added man pages for all commands.
3093 * Multiple binary package support.
3094 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3095 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3096 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3098 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3099 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3100 auto-installed as parameters.
3101 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3103 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3106 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3107 the package build directory it is to act on.
3108 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3109 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3110 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3114 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3116 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3117 ready to replace debstd.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400