1 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
5 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
9 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
12 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
13 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
14 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
15 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
16 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
17 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
18 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
19 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
20 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
21 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
22 Closes: #88464, #77743
23 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
24 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
25 us to deal with that gracefully.
26 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
28 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
29 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
30 a while, Closes: #51225
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
34 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
40 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
43 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
47 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
51 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
56 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
59 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
60 don't make packlist files.
61 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
62 debhelper coding standards.
63 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
64 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
68 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
71 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
75 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
78 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
79 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
80 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
81 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
82 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
83 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
84 but is mildly deprecated.
85 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
86 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
87 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
88 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
89 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
90 switching to statoverrides..
91 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
92 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
93 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
94 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
95 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
96 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
98 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
99 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
100 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
101 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
102 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
103 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
104 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
105 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
106 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
108 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
109 variable names, pod man pages).
110 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
111 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
112 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
113 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
114 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
115 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
116 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
120 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
126 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
133 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
135 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
136 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
140 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
142 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
143 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
144 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
148 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
150 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
151 they were previously ignored.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
155 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
157 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
158 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
162 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
164 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
165 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
166 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
170 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
172 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
176 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
178 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
179 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
183 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
185 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
186 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
187 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
188 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
189 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
190 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
191 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
192 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
193 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
194 it is an obsolete program.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
198 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
200 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
204 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
208 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
210 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
214 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
216 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
218 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
220 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
224 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
230 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
232 * typo: Closes, #78567
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
236 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
238 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
242 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
248 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
250 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
251 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
252 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
253 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
254 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
255 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
259 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
262 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
267 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
270 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
271 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
272 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
273 backwards-compatability.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
277 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
279 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
280 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
281 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
282 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
283 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
284 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
285 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
287 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
288 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
289 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
291 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
293 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
294 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
295 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
296 should now be raised to severity important..
297 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
298 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
302 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
305 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
310 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Typo, Closes: #77441
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
316 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Completed the fix from the last version.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
322 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
328 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
330 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
335 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
338 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
339 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
340 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
341 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
345 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
351 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
354 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
355 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
356 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
357 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
358 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
359 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
364 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
367 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
371 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
377 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
380 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
385 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
388 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
389 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
390 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
391 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
395 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
399 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
402 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
405 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
406 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
409 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
411 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
412 the TODO entry about it.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
416 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
423 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
426 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
427 prevent that. Closes: #73052
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
431 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Typo, Closes: #72932
434 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
435 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
436 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
437 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
441 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
447 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
454 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
457 (this appears to be logal).
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
461 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
464 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
465 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
466 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
467 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
471 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
477 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
479 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
480 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
481 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
482 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
483 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
487 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
493 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
496 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
500 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
507 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
510 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
511 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
512 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
517 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
524 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
530 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
532 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
533 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
534 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
535 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
536 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
537 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
538 notice until v2 is complete.
539 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
540 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
541 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
542 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
543 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
544 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
546 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
547 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
548 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
549 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
553 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
559 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
566 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
569 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
573 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
580 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
583 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
584 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
585 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
586 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
591 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
594 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
595 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
596 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
601 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
604 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
605 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
609 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
612 just skip files that end in -\d+.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
616 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
619 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
623 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
630 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
632 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
633 depend on the build and install targets.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
637 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
640 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
644 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
651 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
657 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
663 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
666 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
667 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
668 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
669 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
670 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
671 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
673 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
674 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
675 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
676 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
677 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
678 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
679 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
683 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
689 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
695 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
698 right place. Closes: #55065
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
702 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
709 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Make all examples rules files executable.
712 * Copyright date updates.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
716 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
719 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
724 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
730 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
737 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
743 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
749 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
755 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
758 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
759 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
760 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
761 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
762 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
763 bits until all files have been registered.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
767 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_installmanpages:
770 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
771 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
772 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
773 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
774 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
775 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
776 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
777 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
778 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
779 otherwise change the result at all.
781 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
782 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
783 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
784 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
785 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
790 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
796 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
799 act on files that don't exist.
800 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
801 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
802 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
804 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
805 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
806 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
807 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
811 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
817 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
823 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
826 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
830 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
833 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
835 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
836 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
837 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
841 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
844 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
845 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
846 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
847 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
848 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
849 does not compress. Closes: #41733
850 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
852 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
854 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
858 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
865 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
871 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
880 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
884 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
890 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
896 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
899 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
900 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
901 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
902 I made some changes, though:
903 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
904 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
905 that is a clear violation of policy.
906 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
907 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
908 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
909 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
910 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
911 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
912 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
913 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
914 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
916 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
920 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
926 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
929 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
933 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
936 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
937 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
942 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
948 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
955 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
958 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
959 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
960 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
961 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
962 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
963 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
964 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
968 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
974 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
978 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
979 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
983 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
989 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
992 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
999 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1000 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1004 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1006 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1011 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1015 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1019 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1022 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1023 for the dependancies to be generated.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1027 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1030 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1034 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1037 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1038 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1039 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1044 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1047 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1048 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1052 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1058 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1064 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1067 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1071 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1077 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1080 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1081 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1082 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1083 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1084 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1085 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1086 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1087 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1088 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1089 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1090 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1091 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1095 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1098 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1099 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1101 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1102 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1103 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1104 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1105 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1106 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1108 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1109 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1113 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1116 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1120 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1127 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1130 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1135 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1138 for building debhelper.
1139 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1143 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1150 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1153 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1157 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1160 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1161 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1162 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1163 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1164 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1165 it's always available.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1169 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1172 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1173 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1174 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1178 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1181 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1182 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1192 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1195 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1199 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1205 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1208 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1209 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1210 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1217 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1222 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1225 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1226 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1228 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1229 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1233 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1248 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1255 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1256 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1258 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1262 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1265 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1266 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1267 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1271 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1274 things if CDPATH is set.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1278 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1284 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1287 seems to make sense for the transition.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1291 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1294 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1299 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1302 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1303 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1307 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1310 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1314 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1317 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1318 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1319 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1320 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1324 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1333 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1334 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1335 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1336 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1337 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1338 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1339 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1340 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1341 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1342 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1347 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1350 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1351 * README: mention doc/v2
1352 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1353 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1357 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1359 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1360 be using this script RSN.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1364 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1367 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1368 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1369 more than 1 init script.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1373 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1376 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1380 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Changed perl version detection.
1383 * Changed call to find.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1387 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1390 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1392 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1397 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Really include dh_installpam.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1403 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1406 * Wrote man page for same.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1410 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1413 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1414 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1419 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1426 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1429 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1430 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1431 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1432 x bit was being set!
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1436 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1439 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1440 well. (Closes: 38900)
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1444 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1447 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1448 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1452 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1458 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1465 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1471 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1474 help from Julian Gilbey.
1475 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1476 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1477 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1478 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1479 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1480 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1481 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1486 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1492 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1499 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1505 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1511 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1514 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1518 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1521 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1525 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1528 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1532 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1538 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1541 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1545 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1551 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1557 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1560 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1561 may be deleted. (#35845)
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1565 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Various man page enhancements.
1568 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1576 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1577 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1581 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1584 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1585 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1586 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1588 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1589 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1594 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1600 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Another very minor typo fix.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1606 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Very minor typo fix.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1612 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1615 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1616 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1620 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1626 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1629 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1630 variables properly (#34850).
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1634 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1640 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1643 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1644 (automatically generated by build process).
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1648 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1650 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1654 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1657 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1658 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1660 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1664 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1667 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1671 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * README: minor typo fix.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1677 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1680 leave it at that. :-)
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1684 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1690 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1696 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1699 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1700 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1701 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1705 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1708 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1712 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1715 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1719 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1722 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1723 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1724 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1725 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1729 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1732 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1733 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1734 Craig Small for spotting this.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1738 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1741 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1742 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1746 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1752 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1755 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1759 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1761 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1762 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1763 working on the last version of debhelper.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1767 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1770 being made. (#23255)
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1774 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1780 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1783 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1787 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1790 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1791 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1792 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1793 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1797 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1800 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1801 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1802 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1803 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1805 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1806 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1808 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1813 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1819 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1825 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1828 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1829 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1830 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1831 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1832 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1833 suidregister actually supports it.
1834 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1835 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1839 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1846 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1849 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1850 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1851 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1852 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1853 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1854 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1855 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1859 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1861 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1862 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1866 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1869 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1870 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1871 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1872 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1876 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1879 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1881 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1882 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1883 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1884 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1885 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1886 effect, either. (#30118)
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1890 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1896 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1899 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1900 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1904 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1910 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1913 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1914 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1915 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1916 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1920 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1923 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1924 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1928 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1934 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1937 packages, painlessly.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1941 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1947 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1953 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1959 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * The perl conversion is complete.
1963 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1965 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1966 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1967 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1972 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1975 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1976 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1977 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1981 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1984 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1986 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1988 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1989 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1993 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1996 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1997 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2001 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2007 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2010 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2011 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2012 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2013 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2014 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2018 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2021 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2022 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2023 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2024 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2028 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2031 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2035 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2038 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2039 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2040 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2041 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2042 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2043 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2044 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2045 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2049 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2055 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2058 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2059 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2060 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2065 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2068 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2072 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2075 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2079 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2082 sections of shared libraries.
2083 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2084 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2085 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2086 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2087 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2088 things you don't want them to.
2089 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2090 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2094 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2097 shared libraries. (#26414)
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2101 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2103 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2104 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2105 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2106 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2110 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2114 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2116 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2117 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2118 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2119 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2120 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2124 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2127 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2131 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2134 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2135 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2140 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2143 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2147 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2150 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2151 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2152 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2153 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2154 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2156 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2157 remove debian/files properly.
2158 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2159 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2160 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2161 * Removed bogus menu file.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2165 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2168 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2172 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2175 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2176 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2177 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2178 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2179 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2180 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2184 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2187 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2188 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2189 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2190 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2194 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2201 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2204 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2205 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2207 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2208 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2209 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2210 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2211 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2212 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2216 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2219 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2220 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2221 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2222 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2223 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2224 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2225 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2226 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2227 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2228 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2229 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2230 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2231 passed any switches.
2232 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2236 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2239 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2240 at all for a long while.
2241 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2242 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2243 large chunks in the process.
2244 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2245 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2246 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2251 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2254 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2256 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2261 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2264 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2265 that don't always have the same files in them.
2266 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2267 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2268 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2272 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2276 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2277 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2278 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2279 updating 27 man pages.
2280 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2281 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2282 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2283 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2284 programs act on. (#25247)
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2288 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2292 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2293 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2294 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2295 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2296 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2297 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2302 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2309 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2316 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2319 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2323 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2329 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2332 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2333 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2334 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2335 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2336 package by accident.
2337 * Is version 1.0 next?
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2341 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2344 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2345 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2349 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2352 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2353 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2354 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2355 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2356 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2358 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2363 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2366 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2367 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2371 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2374 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2378 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2381 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2382 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2387 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2393 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2396 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2397 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2402 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2408 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2411 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2412 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2413 past week. Thanks, guys!
2415 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2416 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2417 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2418 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2419 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2420 would do in the same situation.
2421 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2422 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2424 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2426 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2427 permissions changed.
2428 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2429 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2430 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2431 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2432 files are treated identically.
2433 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2434 * Minor man page fixes.
2435 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2436 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2437 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2441 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2444 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2445 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2446 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2447 use -X multiple times, too.
2448 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2449 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2453 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2456 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2457 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2461 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2464 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2468 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2471 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2472 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2473 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2474 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2475 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2476 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2477 shape if you're starting a new package.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2481 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2484 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2488 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2491 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2492 because of missing symlinks.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2496 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2502 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2505 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2506 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2507 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2508 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2509 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2511 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2512 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2516 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2518 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2519 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2520 to be changed after the fact :-)
2521 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2525 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2528 no version string after the -V.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2532 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2534 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2535 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2540 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2543 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2547 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2550 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2551 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2552 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2553 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2554 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2555 I always welcome corrections!
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2559 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2565 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2568 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2569 * Documented this new switch.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2573 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2576 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2577 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2578 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2579 no packages use the old behavior.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2583 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2586 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2587 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2591 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2594 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2598 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2604 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2607 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2611 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2614 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2615 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2616 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2620 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2626 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2629 into the source package by accident.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2633 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2636 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2637 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2638 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2639 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2640 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2641 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2646 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2650 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2651 inspired to implement some of it.
2652 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2656 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2659 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2663 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2666 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2667 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2671 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2674 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2675 have done.) (#17598)
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2679 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2685 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2691 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2694 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2698 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2701 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2702 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2706 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2709 argument processor in perl.
2710 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2711 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2712 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2713 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2717 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2720 type directories. (#16933)
2721 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2722 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2723 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2724 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2725 are supported. (#16935)
2726 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2731 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2734 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2738 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2742 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2743 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2744 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2745 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2746 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2747 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2751 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2754 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2755 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2757 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2758 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2759 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2760 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2761 a given package, or -i or -a.
2762 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2763 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2764 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2765 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2766 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2767 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2768 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2769 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2770 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2772 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2773 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2774 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2778 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2781 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2782 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2787 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2790 does not have a section.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2794 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2797 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2798 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2799 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2803 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Fixed typo #16215.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2809 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2812 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2813 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2814 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2815 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2816 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2821 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2824 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2825 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2826 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2831 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2837 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2843 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2846 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2847 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2848 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2849 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2850 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2851 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2855 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2861 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2864 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2868 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2871 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2872 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2873 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2877 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2880 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2884 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2890 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2893 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2897 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2900 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2904 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2910 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2913 postinst, postrm, etc.
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2917 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2923 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2926 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2927 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2928 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2929 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2930 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2934 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2937 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2938 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2942 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2945 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2949 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2952 installing package files into.
2953 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2958 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2962 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2966 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2972 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2975 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2979 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2982 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2983 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2984 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2985 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2989 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2991 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2992 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2993 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2994 multiple binary packages.
2995 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2996 should rebuild them with this version.
2997 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3001 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3004 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3008 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3011 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3015 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3018 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3019 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3020 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3021 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3022 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3023 debian/README.debian.
3024 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3025 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3026 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3027 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3028 in a few situations.)
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3032 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3038 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3044 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3047 * Fixed several man pages.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3051 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3054 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3055 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3059 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3062 is ready for general use.
3063 * Added man pages for all commands.
3064 * Multiple binary package support.
3065 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3066 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3067 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3069 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3070 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3071 auto-installed as parameters.
3072 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3074 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3077 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3078 the package build directory it is to act on.
3079 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3080 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3081 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3085 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3087 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3088 ready to replace debstd.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400