1 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
9 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
12 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
13 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
14 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
15 backwards-compatability.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
19 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
21 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
22 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
23 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
24 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
25 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
26 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
27 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
29 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
30 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
31 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
33 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
35 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
36 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
37 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
38 should now be raised to severity important..
39 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
40 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
44 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
47 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
52 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Typo, Closes: #77441
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
58 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Completed the fix from the last version.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
64 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
70 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
72 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
77 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
80 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
81 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
82 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
83 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
87 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
93 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
96 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
97 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
98 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
99 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
100 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
101 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
106 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
109 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
113 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
119 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
121 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
122 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
127 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
130 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
131 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
132 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
133 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
137 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
141 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
144 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
147 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
148 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
151 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
153 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
154 the TODO entry about it.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
158 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
165 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
168 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
169 prevent that. Closes: #73052
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
173 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Typo, Closes: #72932
176 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
177 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
178 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
179 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
183 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
189 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
196 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
199 (this appears to be logal).
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
203 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
206 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
207 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
208 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
209 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
213 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
219 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
221 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
222 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
223 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
224 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
225 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
229 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
235 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
238 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
242 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
249 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
252 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
253 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
254 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
259 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
266 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
272 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
274 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
275 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
276 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
277 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
278 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
279 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
280 notice until v2 is complete.
281 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
282 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
283 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
284 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
285 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
286 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
288 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
289 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
290 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
291 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
295 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
301 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
308 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
311 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
315 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
322 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
325 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
326 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
327 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
328 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
333 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
336 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
337 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
338 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
343 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
346 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
347 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
351 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
354 just skip files that end in -\d+.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
358 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
361 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
365 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
372 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
374 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
375 depend on the build and install targets.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
379 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
382 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
386 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
393 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
399 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
405 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
408 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
409 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
410 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
411 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
412 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
413 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
415 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
416 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
417 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
418 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
419 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
420 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
421 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
425 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
427 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
431 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
437 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
440 right place. Closes: #55065
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
444 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
451 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Make all examples rules files executable.
454 * Copyright date updates.
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
458 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
461 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
466 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
472 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
479 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
485 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
491 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
497 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
500 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
501 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
502 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
503 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
504 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
505 bits until all files have been registered.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
509 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
511 * dh_installmanpages:
512 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
513 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
514 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
515 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
516 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
517 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
518 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
519 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
520 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
521 otherwise change the result at all.
523 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
524 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
525 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
526 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
527 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
532 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
538 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
541 act on files that don't exist.
542 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
543 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
544 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
546 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
547 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
548 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
549 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
553 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
559 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
565 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
568 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
572 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
575 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
577 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
578 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
579 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
583 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
586 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
587 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
588 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
589 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
590 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
591 does not compress. Closes: #41733
592 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
594 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
596 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
600 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
607 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
613 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
619 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
622 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
626 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
632 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
638 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
641 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
642 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
643 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
644 I made some changes, though:
645 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
646 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
647 that is a clear violation of policy.
648 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
649 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
650 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
651 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
652 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
653 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
654 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
655 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
656 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
658 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
662 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
668 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
671 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
675 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
678 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
679 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
684 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
690 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
697 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
700 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
701 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
702 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
703 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
704 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
705 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
706 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
710 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
716 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
720 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
721 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
725 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
731 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
734 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
738 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
741 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
742 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
746 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
748 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
753 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
757 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
761 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
763 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
764 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
765 for the dependancies to be generated.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
769 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
772 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
776 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
779 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
780 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
781 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
789 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
790 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
794 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
800 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
806 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
809 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
813 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
819 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
821 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
822 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
823 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
824 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
825 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
826 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
827 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
828 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
829 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
830 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
831 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
832 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
833 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
837 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
839 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
840 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
841 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
843 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
844 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
845 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
846 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
847 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
848 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
850 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
851 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
855 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
858 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
862 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
869 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
871 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
872 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
880 for building debhelper.
881 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
885 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
892 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Fixed makefile commit target.
895 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
899 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
902 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
903 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
904 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
905 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
906 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
907 it's always available.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
911 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
914 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
915 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
916 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
920 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
923 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
924 modules. (Closes: #42171)
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
928 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
934 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
937 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
941 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
947 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
950 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
951 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
952 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
956 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
959 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
964 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
967 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
968 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
970 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
971 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
975 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
981 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
987 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
989 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
990 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
994 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
997 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
998 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1000 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1004 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1007 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1008 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1009 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1013 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1016 things if CDPATH is set.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1020 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1026 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1029 seems to make sense for the transition.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1033 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1036 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1041 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1044 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1045 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1049 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1052 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1056 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1059 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1060 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1061 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1062 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1066 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1072 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1075 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1076 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1077 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1078 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1079 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1080 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1081 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1082 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1083 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1084 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1089 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1092 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1093 * README: mention doc/v2
1094 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1095 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1099 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1101 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1102 be using this script RSN.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1106 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1109 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1110 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1111 more than 1 init script.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1115 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1118 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1122 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Changed perl version detection.
1125 * Changed call to find.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1129 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1132 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1134 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1139 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Really include dh_installpam.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1145 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1148 * Wrote man page for same.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1152 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1155 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1156 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1161 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1168 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1171 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1172 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1173 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1174 x bit was being set!
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1178 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1181 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1182 well. (Closes: 38900)
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1186 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1189 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1190 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1194 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1200 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1207 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1213 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1216 help from Julian Gilbey.
1217 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1218 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1219 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1220 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1221 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1222 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1223 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1228 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1234 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1241 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1247 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1253 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1256 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1260 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1263 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1267 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1270 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1274 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1280 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1283 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1287 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1293 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1299 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1302 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1303 may be deleted. (#35845)
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1307 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Various man page enhancements.
1310 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1315 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1318 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1319 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1323 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1326 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1327 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1328 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1330 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1331 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1336 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1342 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Another very minor typo fix.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1348 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Very minor typo fix.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1354 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1357 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1358 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1362 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1368 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1371 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1372 variables properly (#34850).
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1376 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1382 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1385 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1386 (automatically generated by build process).
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1390 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1392 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1396 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1399 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1400 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1402 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1406 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1409 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1413 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * README: minor typo fix.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1419 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1422 leave it at that. :-)
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1426 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1432 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1438 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1441 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1442 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1443 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1447 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1450 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1454 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1457 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1461 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1464 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1465 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1466 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1467 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1471 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1474 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1475 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1476 Craig Small for spotting this.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1480 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1483 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1484 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1488 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1494 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1497 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1501 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1503 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1504 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1505 working on the last version of debhelper.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1509 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1512 being made. (#23255)
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1516 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1522 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1525 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1529 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1532 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1533 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1534 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1535 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1539 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1542 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1543 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1544 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1545 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1547 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1548 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1550 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1555 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1561 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1567 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1570 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1571 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1572 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1573 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1574 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1575 suidregister actually supports it.
1576 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1577 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1581 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1588 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1591 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1592 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1593 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1594 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1595 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1596 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1597 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1601 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1603 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1604 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1608 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1611 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1612 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1613 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1614 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1618 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1621 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1623 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1624 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1625 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1626 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1627 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1628 effect, either. (#30118)
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1632 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1638 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1641 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1642 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1646 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1652 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1655 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1656 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1657 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1658 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1662 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1665 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1666 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1670 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1676 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1679 packages, painlessly.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1683 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1689 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1695 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1701 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * The perl conversion is complete.
1705 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1707 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1708 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1709 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1714 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1717 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1718 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1719 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1723 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1726 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1728 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1730 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1731 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1735 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1738 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1739 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1743 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1749 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1752 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1753 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1754 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1755 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1756 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1760 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1763 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1764 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1765 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1766 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1770 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1773 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1777 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1780 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1781 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1782 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1783 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1784 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1785 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1786 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1787 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1791 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1797 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1800 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1801 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1802 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1807 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1810 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1814 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1817 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1821 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1824 sections of shared libraries.
1825 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1826 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1827 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1828 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1829 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1830 things you don't want them to.
1831 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1832 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1836 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1839 shared libraries. (#26414)
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1843 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1845 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1846 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1847 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1848 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1852 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1856 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1858 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1859 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1860 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1861 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1862 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1866 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1869 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1873 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1876 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1877 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1882 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1885 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1889 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1892 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1893 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1894 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1895 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1896 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1898 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1899 remove debian/files properly.
1900 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1901 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1902 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1903 * Removed bogus menu file.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1907 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1910 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1914 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1917 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1918 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1919 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1920 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1921 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1922 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1926 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1929 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1930 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1931 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1932 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1936 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1943 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1946 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1947 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1949 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1950 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1951 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1952 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1953 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1954 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1958 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1961 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1962 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1963 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1964 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1965 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1966 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1967 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1968 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1969 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1970 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1971 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1972 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1973 passed any switches.
1974 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1978 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1981 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1982 at all for a long while.
1983 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1984 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1985 large chunks in the process.
1986 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1987 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1988 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1993 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1996 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1998 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2003 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2006 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2007 that don't always have the same files in them.
2008 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2009 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2010 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2014 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2018 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2019 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2020 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2021 updating 27 man pages.
2022 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2023 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2024 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2025 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2026 programs act on. (#25247)
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2030 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2034 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2035 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2036 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2037 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2038 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2039 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2044 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2051 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2058 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2061 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2065 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2071 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2074 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2075 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2076 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2077 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2078 package by accident.
2079 * Is version 1.0 next?
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2083 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2086 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2087 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2091 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2094 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2095 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2096 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2097 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2098 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2100 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2105 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2108 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2109 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2113 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2116 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2120 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2123 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2124 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2129 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2135 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2138 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2139 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2144 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2150 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2153 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2154 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2155 past week. Thanks, guys!
2157 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2158 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2159 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2160 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2161 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2162 would do in the same situation.
2163 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2164 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2166 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2168 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2169 permissions changed.
2170 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2171 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2172 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2173 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2174 files are treated identically.
2175 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2176 * Minor man page fixes.
2177 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2178 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2179 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2183 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2186 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2187 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2188 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2189 use -X multiple times, too.
2190 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2191 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2195 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2198 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2199 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2203 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2206 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2210 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2213 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2214 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2215 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2216 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2217 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2218 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2219 shape if you're starting a new package.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2223 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2226 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2230 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2233 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2234 because of missing symlinks.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2238 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2244 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2247 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2248 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2249 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2250 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2251 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2253 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2254 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2258 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2260 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2261 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2262 to be changed after the fact :-)
2263 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2267 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2270 no version string after the -V.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2274 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2276 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2277 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2282 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2285 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2289 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2292 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2293 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2294 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2295 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2296 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2297 I always welcome corrections!
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2301 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2307 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2310 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2311 * Documented this new switch.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2315 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2318 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2319 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2320 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2321 no packages use the old behavior.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2325 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2328 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2329 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2333 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2336 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2340 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2346 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2349 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2353 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2356 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2357 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2358 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2362 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2368 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2371 into the source package by accident.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2375 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2378 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2379 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2380 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2381 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2382 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2383 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2388 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2392 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2393 inspired to implement some of it.
2394 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2398 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2401 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2405 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2408 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2409 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2413 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2416 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2417 have done.) (#17598)
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2421 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2427 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2433 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2436 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2440 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2443 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2444 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2448 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2451 argument processor in perl.
2452 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2453 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2454 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2455 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2459 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2462 type directories. (#16933)
2463 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2464 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2465 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2466 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2467 are supported. (#16935)
2468 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2473 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2476 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2480 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2484 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2485 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2486 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2487 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2488 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2489 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2493 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2496 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2497 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2499 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2500 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2501 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2502 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2503 a given package, or -i or -a.
2504 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2505 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2506 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2507 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2508 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2509 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2510 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2511 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2512 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2514 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2515 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2516 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2520 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2523 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2524 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2529 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2532 does not have a section.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2536 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2539 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2540 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2541 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2545 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Fixed typo #16215.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2551 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2554 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2555 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2556 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2557 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2558 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2563 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2566 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2567 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2568 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2573 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2579 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2585 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2588 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2589 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2590 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2591 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2592 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2593 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2597 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2603 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2606 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2610 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2613 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2614 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2615 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2619 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2622 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2626 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2632 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2635 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2639 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2642 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2646 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2652 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2655 postinst, postrm, etc.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2659 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2665 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2668 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2669 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2670 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2671 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2672 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2676 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2679 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2680 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2684 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2687 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2691 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2694 installing package files into.
2695 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2700 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2704 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2708 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2714 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2717 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2721 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2724 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2725 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2726 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2727 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2731 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2733 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2734 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2735 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2736 multiple binary packages.
2737 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2738 should rebuild them with this version.
2739 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2743 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2746 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2750 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2753 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2757 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2760 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2761 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2762 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2763 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2764 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2765 debian/README.debian.
2766 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2767 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2768 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2769 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2770 in a few situations.)
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2774 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2780 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2786 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2789 * Fixed several man pages.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2793 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2796 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2797 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2801 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2804 is ready for general use.
2805 * Added man pages for all commands.
2806 * Multiple binary package support.
2807 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2808 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2809 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2811 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2812 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2813 auto-installed as parameters.
2814 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2816 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2819 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2820 the package build directory it is to act on.
2821 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2822 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2823 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2827 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2829 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2830 ready to replace debstd.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400