1 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
8 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
14 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
17 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
22 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
25 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
26 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
27 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
28 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
32 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
36 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
39 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
42 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
43 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
46 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
48 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
49 the TODO entry about it.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
53 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
60 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
63 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
64 prevent that. Closes: #73052
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
68 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Typo, Closes: #72932
71 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
72 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
73 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
74 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
78 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
84 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
91 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
94 (this appears to be logal).
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
98 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
101 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
102 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
103 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
104 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
108 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
114 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
116 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
117 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
118 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
119 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
120 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
124 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
130 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
133 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
137 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
144 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
147 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
148 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
149 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
154 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
161 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
167 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
169 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
170 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
171 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
172 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
173 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
174 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
175 notice until v2 is complete.
176 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
177 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
178 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
179 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
180 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
181 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
183 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
184 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
185 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
186 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
190 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
203 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
206 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
210 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
217 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
220 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
221 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
222 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
223 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
228 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
231 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
232 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
233 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
238 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
241 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
242 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
246 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
249 just skip files that end in -\d+.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
253 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
256 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
260 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
269 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
270 depend on the build and install targets.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
277 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
281 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
288 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
294 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
300 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
303 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
304 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
305 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
306 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
307 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
308 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
310 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
311 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
312 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
313 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
314 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
315 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
316 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
320 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
326 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
332 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
335 right place. Closes: #55065
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
339 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
346 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Make all examples rules files executable.
349 * Copyright date updates.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
353 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
356 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
361 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
367 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
374 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
380 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
386 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
392 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
395 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
396 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
397 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
398 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
399 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
400 bits until all files have been registered.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
404 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_installmanpages:
407 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
408 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
409 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
410 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
411 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
412 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
413 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
414 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
415 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
416 otherwise change the result at all.
418 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
419 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
420 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
421 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
422 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
427 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
433 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
436 act on files that don't exist.
437 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
438 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
439 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
441 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
442 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
443 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
444 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
448 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
454 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
460 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
463 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
467 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
470 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
472 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
473 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
474 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
478 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
481 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
482 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
483 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
484 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
485 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
486 does not compress. Closes: #41733
487 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
489 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
491 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
495 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
502 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
508 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
514 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
517 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
521 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
527 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
533 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
536 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
537 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
538 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
539 I made some changes, though:
540 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
541 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
542 that is a clear violation of policy.
543 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
544 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
545 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
546 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
547 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
548 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
549 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
550 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
551 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
553 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
557 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
566 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
573 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
574 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
579 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
585 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
592 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
595 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
596 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
597 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
598 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
599 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
600 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
601 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
605 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
611 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
615 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
616 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
620 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
626 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
629 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
633 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
636 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
637 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
641 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
643 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
648 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
652 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
656 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
658 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
659 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
660 for the dependancies to be generated.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
664 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
667 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
671 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
674 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
675 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
676 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
681 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
684 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
685 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
689 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
695 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
701 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
704 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
708 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
714 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
716 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
717 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
718 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
719 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
720 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
721 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
722 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
723 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
724 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
725 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
726 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
727 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
728 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
732 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
734 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
735 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
736 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
738 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
739 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
740 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
741 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
742 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
743 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
745 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
746 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
750 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
753 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
757 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
764 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
766 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
767 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
772 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
775 for building debhelper.
776 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
780 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
787 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Fixed makefile commit target.
790 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
794 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
797 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
798 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
799 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
800 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
801 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
802 it's always available.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
806 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
809 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
810 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
811 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
815 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
818 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
819 modules. (Closes: #42171)
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
829 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
832 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
836 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
842 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
845 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
846 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
847 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
851 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
854 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
859 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
862 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
863 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
865 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
866 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
870 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
876 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
882 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
884 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
885 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
889 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
892 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
893 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
895 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
899 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
902 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
903 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
904 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
908 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
911 things if CDPATH is set.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
915 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
921 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
924 seems to make sense for the transition.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
928 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
931 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
936 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
939 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
940 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
944 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
947 that version. (Closes: #40589)
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
951 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
953 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
954 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
955 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
956 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
957 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
961 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
967 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
970 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
971 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
972 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
973 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
974 * debhelper.1: documented this.
975 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
976 current compatability level is equal to that number.
977 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
978 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
979 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
984 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
986 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
987 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
988 * README: mention doc/v2
989 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
990 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
994 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
996 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
997 be using this script RSN.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1001 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1004 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1005 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1006 more than 1 init script.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1010 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1013 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1017 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Changed perl version detection.
1020 * Changed call to find.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1024 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1027 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1029 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1034 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Really include dh_installpam.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1040 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1043 * Wrote man page for same.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1047 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1050 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1051 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1056 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1063 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1066 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1067 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1068 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1069 x bit was being set!
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1073 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1076 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1077 well. (Closes: 38900)
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1081 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1084 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1085 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1089 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1095 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1102 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1108 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1111 help from Julian Gilbey.
1112 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1113 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1114 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1115 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1116 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1117 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1118 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1123 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1129 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1136 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1142 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1148 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1151 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1155 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1158 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1162 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1165 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1169 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1175 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1178 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1182 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1188 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1194 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1197 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1198 may be deleted. (#35845)
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1202 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Various man page enhancements.
1205 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1210 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1213 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1214 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1221 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1222 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1223 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1225 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1226 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1231 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1237 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Another very minor typo fix.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1243 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Very minor typo fix.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1249 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1252 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1253 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1257 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1263 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1266 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1267 variables properly (#34850).
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1271 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1277 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1280 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1281 (automatically generated by build process).
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1285 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1287 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1291 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1294 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1295 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1297 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1301 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1304 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1308 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * README: minor typo fix.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1314 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1317 leave it at that. :-)
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1321 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1327 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1333 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1336 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1337 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1338 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1342 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1345 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1349 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1352 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1356 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1359 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1360 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1361 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1362 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1366 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1369 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1370 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1371 Craig Small for spotting this.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1375 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1378 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1379 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1383 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1389 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1392 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1396 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1398 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1399 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1400 working on the last version of debhelper.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1404 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1407 being made. (#23255)
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1411 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1417 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1420 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1424 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1427 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1428 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1429 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1430 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1434 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1437 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1438 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1439 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1440 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1442 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1443 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1445 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1450 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1456 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1462 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1465 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1466 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1467 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1468 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1469 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1470 suidregister actually supports it.
1471 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1472 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1476 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1483 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1486 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1487 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1488 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1489 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1490 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1491 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1492 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1496 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1498 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1499 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1503 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1506 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1507 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1508 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1509 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1513 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1516 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1518 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1519 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1520 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1521 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1522 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1523 effect, either. (#30118)
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1527 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1533 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1536 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1537 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1541 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1547 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1550 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1551 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1552 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1553 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1557 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1560 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1561 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1565 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1571 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1574 packages, painlessly.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1578 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1584 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1590 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1596 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * The perl conversion is complete.
1600 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1602 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1603 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1604 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1609 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1612 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1613 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1614 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1618 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1621 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1623 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1625 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1626 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1630 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1633 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1634 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1638 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1644 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1647 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1648 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1649 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1650 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1651 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1655 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1658 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1659 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1660 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1661 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1665 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1668 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1672 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1675 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1676 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1677 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1678 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1679 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1680 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1681 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1682 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1686 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1692 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1695 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1696 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1697 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1702 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1705 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1709 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1712 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1716 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1719 sections of shared libraries.
1720 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1721 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1722 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1723 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1724 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1725 things you don't want them to.
1726 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1727 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1731 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1734 shared libraries. (#26414)
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1738 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1740 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1741 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1742 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1743 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1747 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1751 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1753 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1754 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1755 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1756 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1757 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1761 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1764 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1768 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1771 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1772 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1777 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1780 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1784 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1787 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1788 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1789 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1790 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1791 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1793 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1794 remove debian/files properly.
1795 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1796 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1797 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1798 * Removed bogus menu file.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1802 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1805 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1809 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1812 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1813 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1814 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1815 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1816 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1817 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1821 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1824 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1825 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1826 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1827 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1831 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1838 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1841 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1842 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1844 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1845 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1846 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1847 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1848 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1849 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1853 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1856 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1857 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1858 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1859 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1860 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1861 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1862 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1863 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1864 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1865 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1866 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1867 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1868 passed any switches.
1869 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1873 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1876 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1877 at all for a long while.
1878 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1879 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1880 large chunks in the process.
1881 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1882 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1883 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1888 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1891 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1893 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1898 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1901 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1902 that don't always have the same files in them.
1903 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1904 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1905 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1909 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1913 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1914 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1915 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1916 updating 27 man pages.
1917 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1918 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1919 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1920 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1921 programs act on. (#25247)
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1925 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1929 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1930 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1931 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1932 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1933 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1934 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1939 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1946 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1953 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1956 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1960 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1966 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1969 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1970 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1971 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1972 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1973 package by accident.
1974 * Is version 1.0 next?
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1978 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1981 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1982 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1986 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1989 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1990 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1991 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1992 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1993 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1995 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2000 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2003 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2004 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2008 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2011 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2015 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2018 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2019 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2024 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2030 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2033 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2034 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2039 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2045 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2048 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2049 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2050 past week. Thanks, guys!
2052 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2053 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2054 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2055 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2056 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2057 would do in the same situation.
2058 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2059 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2061 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2063 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2064 permissions changed.
2065 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2066 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2067 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2068 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2069 files are treated identically.
2070 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2071 * Minor man page fixes.
2072 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2073 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2074 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2078 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2081 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2082 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2083 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2084 use -X multiple times, too.
2085 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2086 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2090 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2093 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2094 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2098 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2101 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2105 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2108 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2109 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2110 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2111 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2112 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2113 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2114 shape if you're starting a new package.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2118 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2121 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2125 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2128 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2129 because of missing symlinks.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2133 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2139 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2142 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2143 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2144 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2145 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2146 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2148 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2149 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2153 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2155 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2156 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2157 to be changed after the fact :-)
2158 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2162 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2165 no version string after the -V.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2169 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2171 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2172 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2177 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2180 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2184 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2187 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2188 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2189 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2190 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2191 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2192 I always welcome corrections!
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2196 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2202 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2205 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2206 * Documented this new switch.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2210 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2213 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2214 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2215 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2216 no packages use the old behavior.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2220 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2223 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2224 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2228 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2231 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2235 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2241 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2244 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2248 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2251 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2252 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2253 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2257 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2263 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2266 into the source package by accident.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2270 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2273 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2274 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2275 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2276 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2277 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2278 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2283 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2287 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2288 inspired to implement some of it.
2289 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2293 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2296 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2300 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2303 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2304 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2308 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2311 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2312 have done.) (#17598)
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2316 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2322 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2328 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2331 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2335 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2338 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2339 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2343 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2346 argument processor in perl.
2347 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2348 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2349 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2350 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2354 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2357 type directories. (#16933)
2358 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2359 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2360 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2361 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2362 are supported. (#16935)
2363 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2368 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2371 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2375 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2379 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2380 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2381 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2382 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2383 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2384 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2388 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2391 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2392 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2394 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2395 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2396 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2397 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2398 a given package, or -i or -a.
2399 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2400 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2401 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2402 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2403 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2404 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2405 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2406 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2407 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2409 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2410 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2411 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2415 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2418 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2419 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2424 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2427 does not have a section.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2431 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2434 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2435 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2436 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2440 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Fixed typo #16215.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2446 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2449 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2450 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2451 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2452 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2453 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2458 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2461 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2462 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2463 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2468 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2474 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2480 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2483 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2484 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2485 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2486 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2487 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2488 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2492 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2498 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2501 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2505 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2508 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2509 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2510 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2514 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2517 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2521 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2527 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2530 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2534 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2537 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2541 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2547 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2550 postinst, postrm, etc.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2554 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2560 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2563 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2564 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2565 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2566 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2567 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2571 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2574 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2575 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2579 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2582 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2586 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2589 installing package files into.
2590 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2595 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2599 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2603 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2609 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2612 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2616 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2619 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2620 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2621 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2622 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2626 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2628 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2629 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2630 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2631 multiple binary packages.
2632 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2633 should rebuild them with this version.
2634 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2638 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2641 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2645 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2648 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2652 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2655 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2656 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2657 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2658 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2659 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2660 debian/README.debian.
2661 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2662 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2663 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2664 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2665 in a few situations.)
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2669 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2675 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2681 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2684 * Fixed several man pages.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2688 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2691 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2692 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2696 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2699 is ready for general use.
2700 * Added man pages for all commands.
2701 * Multiple binary package support.
2702 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2703 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2704 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2706 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2707 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2708 auto-installed as parameters.
2709 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2711 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2714 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2715 the package build directory it is to act on.
2716 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2717 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2718 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2722 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2724 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2725 ready to replace debstd.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400