1 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
7 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Completed the fix from the last version.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
13 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
19 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
21 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
26 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
29 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
30 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
31 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
32 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
36 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
42 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
45 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
46 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
47 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
48 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
49 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
50 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
55 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
58 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
62 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
68 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
71 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
76 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
79 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
80 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
81 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
82 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
86 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
90 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
93 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
96 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
97 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
100 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
102 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
103 the TODO entry about it.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
107 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
114 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
117 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
118 prevent that. Closes: #73052
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
122 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Typo, Closes: #72932
125 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
126 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
127 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
128 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
132 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
138 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
145 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
148 (this appears to be logal).
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
152 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
155 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
156 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
157 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
158 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
162 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
168 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
170 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
171 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
172 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
173 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
174 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
178 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
184 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
187 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
191 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
198 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
201 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
202 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
203 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
208 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
215 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
221 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
223 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
224 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
225 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
226 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
227 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
228 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
229 notice until v2 is complete.
230 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
231 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
232 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
233 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
234 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
235 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
237 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
238 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
239 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
240 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
244 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
250 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
257 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
260 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
264 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
271 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
274 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
275 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
276 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
277 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
282 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
285 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
286 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
287 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
292 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
295 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
296 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
300 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
303 just skip files that end in -\d+.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
307 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
310 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
314 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
321 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
323 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
324 depend on the build and install targets.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
328 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
331 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
335 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
342 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
348 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
354 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
357 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
358 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
359 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
360 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
361 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
362 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
364 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
365 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
366 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
367 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
368 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
369 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
370 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
374 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
380 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
386 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
389 right place. Closes: #55065
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
393 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
400 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Make all examples rules files executable.
403 * Copyright date updates.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
407 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
410 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
415 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
421 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
428 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
434 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
440 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
446 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
449 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
450 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
451 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
452 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
453 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
454 bits until all files have been registered.
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
458 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_installmanpages:
461 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
462 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
463 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
464 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
465 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
466 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
467 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
468 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
469 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
470 otherwise change the result at all.
472 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
473 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
474 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
475 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
476 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
481 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
487 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
490 act on files that don't exist.
491 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
492 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
493 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
495 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
496 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
497 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
498 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
502 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
508 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
514 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
517 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
521 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
524 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
526 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
527 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
528 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
532 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
535 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
536 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
537 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
538 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
539 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
540 does not compress. Closes: #41733
541 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
543 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
545 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
549 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
556 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
562 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
568 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
571 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
575 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
581 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
587 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
590 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
591 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
592 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
593 I made some changes, though:
594 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
595 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
596 that is a clear violation of policy.
597 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
598 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
599 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
600 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
601 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
602 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
603 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
604 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
605 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
607 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
611 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
617 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
620 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
624 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
627 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
628 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
633 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
639 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
646 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
649 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
650 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
651 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
652 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
653 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
654 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
655 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
659 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
665 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
669 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
670 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
674 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
680 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
683 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
687 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
690 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
691 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
695 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
697 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
702 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
706 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
710 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
712 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
713 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
714 for the dependancies to be generated.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
718 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
721 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
725 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
728 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
729 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
730 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
735 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
738 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
739 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
743 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
749 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
755 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
758 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
762 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
770 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
771 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
772 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
773 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
774 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
775 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
776 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
777 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
778 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
779 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
780 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
781 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
782 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
788 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
789 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
790 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
792 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
793 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
794 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
795 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
796 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
797 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
799 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
800 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
804 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
807 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
811 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
818 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
820 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
821 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
826 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
829 for building debhelper.
830 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
834 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
841 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Fixed makefile commit target.
844 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
848 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
851 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
852 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
853 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
854 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
855 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
856 it's always available.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
860 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
863 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
864 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
865 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
869 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
872 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
873 modules. (Closes: #42171)
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
883 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
886 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
890 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
896 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
899 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
900 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
901 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
905 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
908 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
913 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
916 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
917 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
919 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
920 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
924 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
930 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
936 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
938 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
939 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
943 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
946 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
947 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
949 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
953 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
956 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
957 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
958 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
962 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
965 things if CDPATH is set.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
969 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
975 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
978 seems to make sense for the transition.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
982 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
985 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
990 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
993 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
994 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
998 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1001 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1005 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1008 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1009 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1010 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1011 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1015 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1021 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1024 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1025 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1026 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1027 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1028 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1029 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1030 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1031 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1032 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1033 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1038 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1041 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1042 * README: mention doc/v2
1043 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1044 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1048 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1050 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1051 be using this script RSN.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1055 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1058 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1059 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1060 more than 1 init script.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1064 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1067 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1071 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Changed perl version detection.
1074 * Changed call to find.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1078 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1081 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1083 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1088 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Really include dh_installpam.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1094 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1097 * Wrote man page for same.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1101 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1104 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1105 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1110 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1117 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1120 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1121 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1122 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1123 x bit was being set!
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1127 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1130 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1131 well. (Closes: 38900)
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1135 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1138 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1139 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1143 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1149 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1156 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1162 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1165 help from Julian Gilbey.
1166 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1167 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1168 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1169 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1170 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1171 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1172 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1177 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1183 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1190 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1196 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1202 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1205 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1209 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1212 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1216 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1219 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1223 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1229 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1232 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1236 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1242 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1248 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1251 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1252 may be deleted. (#35845)
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1256 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Various man page enhancements.
1259 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1264 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1267 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1268 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1272 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1275 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1276 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1277 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1279 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1280 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1285 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1291 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Another very minor typo fix.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1297 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Very minor typo fix.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1303 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1306 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1307 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1311 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1317 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1320 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1321 variables properly (#34850).
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1325 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1331 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1334 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1335 (automatically generated by build process).
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1339 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1341 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1345 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1348 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1349 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1351 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1355 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1358 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1362 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * README: minor typo fix.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1368 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1371 leave it at that. :-)
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1375 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1381 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1387 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1390 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1391 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1392 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1396 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1399 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1403 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1406 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1410 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1413 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1414 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1415 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1416 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1420 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1423 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1424 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1425 Craig Small for spotting this.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1429 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1432 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1433 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1437 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1443 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1446 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1450 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1452 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1453 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1454 working on the last version of debhelper.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1458 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1461 being made. (#23255)
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1465 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1471 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1474 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1478 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1481 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1482 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1483 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1484 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1488 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1491 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1492 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1493 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1494 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1496 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1497 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1499 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1504 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1510 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1516 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1519 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1520 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1521 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1522 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1523 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1524 suidregister actually supports it.
1525 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1526 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1530 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1537 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1540 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1541 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1542 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1543 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1544 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1545 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1546 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1550 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1552 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1553 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1557 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1560 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1561 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1562 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1563 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1567 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1570 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1572 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1573 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1574 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1575 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1576 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1577 effect, either. (#30118)
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1581 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1587 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1590 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1591 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1595 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1601 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1604 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1605 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1606 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1607 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1611 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1614 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1615 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1619 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1625 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1628 packages, painlessly.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1632 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1638 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1644 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1650 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * The perl conversion is complete.
1654 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1656 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1657 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1658 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1663 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1666 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1667 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1668 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1672 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1675 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1677 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1679 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1680 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1684 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1687 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1688 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1692 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1698 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1701 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1702 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1703 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1704 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1705 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1709 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1712 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1713 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1714 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1715 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1719 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1722 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1726 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1729 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1730 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1731 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1732 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1733 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1734 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1735 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1736 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1740 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1746 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1749 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1750 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1751 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1756 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1759 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1763 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1766 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1770 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1773 sections of shared libraries.
1774 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1775 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1776 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1777 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1778 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1779 things you don't want them to.
1780 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1781 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1785 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1788 shared libraries. (#26414)
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1792 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1794 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1795 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1796 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1797 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1801 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1805 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1807 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1808 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1809 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1810 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1811 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1815 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1818 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1822 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1825 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1826 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1831 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1834 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1838 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1841 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1842 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1843 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1844 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1845 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1847 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1848 remove debian/files properly.
1849 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1850 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1851 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1852 * Removed bogus menu file.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1856 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1859 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1863 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1866 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1867 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1868 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1869 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1870 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1871 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1875 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1878 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1879 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1880 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1881 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1885 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1892 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1895 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1896 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1898 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1899 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1900 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1901 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1902 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1903 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1907 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1910 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1911 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1912 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1913 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1914 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1915 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1916 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1917 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1918 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1919 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1920 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1921 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1922 passed any switches.
1923 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1927 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1930 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1931 at all for a long while.
1932 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1933 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1934 large chunks in the process.
1935 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1936 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1937 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1942 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1945 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1947 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1952 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1955 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1956 that don't always have the same files in them.
1957 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1958 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1959 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1963 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1967 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1968 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1969 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1970 updating 27 man pages.
1971 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1972 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1973 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1974 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1975 programs act on. (#25247)
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1979 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1983 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1984 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1985 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1986 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1987 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1988 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1993 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2000 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2007 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2010 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2014 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2020 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2023 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2024 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2025 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2026 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2027 package by accident.
2028 * Is version 1.0 next?
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2032 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2035 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2036 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2040 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2043 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2044 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2045 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2046 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2047 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2049 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2054 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2057 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2058 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2062 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2065 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2069 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2072 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2073 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2078 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2084 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2087 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2088 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2093 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2099 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2102 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2103 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2104 past week. Thanks, guys!
2106 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2107 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2108 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2109 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2110 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2111 would do in the same situation.
2112 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2113 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2115 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2117 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2118 permissions changed.
2119 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2120 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2121 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2122 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2123 files are treated identically.
2124 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2125 * Minor man page fixes.
2126 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2127 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2128 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2132 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2135 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2136 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2137 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2138 use -X multiple times, too.
2139 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2140 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2144 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2147 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2148 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2152 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2155 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2159 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2162 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2163 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2164 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2165 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2166 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2167 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2168 shape if you're starting a new package.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2172 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2175 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2179 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2182 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2183 because of missing symlinks.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2187 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2193 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2196 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2197 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2198 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2199 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2200 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2202 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2203 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2207 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2209 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2210 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2211 to be changed after the fact :-)
2212 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2216 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2219 no version string after the -V.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2223 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2225 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2226 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2231 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2234 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2238 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2241 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2242 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2243 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2244 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2245 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2246 I always welcome corrections!
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2250 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2256 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2259 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2260 * Documented this new switch.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2264 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2267 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2268 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2269 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2270 no packages use the old behavior.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2274 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2277 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2278 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2282 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2285 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2289 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2295 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2298 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2302 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2305 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2306 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2307 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2311 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2317 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2320 into the source package by accident.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2324 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2327 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2328 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2329 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2330 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2331 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2332 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2337 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2341 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2342 inspired to implement some of it.
2343 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2347 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2350 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2354 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2357 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2358 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2362 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2365 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2366 have done.) (#17598)
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2370 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2376 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2382 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2385 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2389 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2392 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2393 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2397 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2400 argument processor in perl.
2401 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2402 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2403 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2404 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2408 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2411 type directories. (#16933)
2412 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2413 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2414 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2415 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2416 are supported. (#16935)
2417 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2422 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2425 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2429 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2433 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2434 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2435 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2436 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2437 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2438 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2442 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2445 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2446 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2448 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2449 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2450 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2451 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2452 a given package, or -i or -a.
2453 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2454 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2455 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2456 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2457 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2458 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2459 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2460 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2461 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2463 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2464 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2465 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2469 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2472 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2473 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2478 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2481 does not have a section.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2485 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2488 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2489 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2490 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2494 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Fixed typo #16215.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2500 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2503 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2504 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2505 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2506 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2507 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2512 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2515 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2516 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2517 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2522 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2528 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2534 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2537 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2538 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2539 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2540 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2541 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2542 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2546 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2552 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2555 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2559 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2562 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2563 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2564 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2568 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2571 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2575 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2581 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2584 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2588 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2591 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2595 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2601 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2604 postinst, postrm, etc.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2608 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2614 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2617 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2618 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2619 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2620 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2621 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2625 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2628 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2629 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2633 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2636 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2640 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2643 installing package files into.
2644 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2649 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2653 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2657 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2663 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2666 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2670 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2673 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2674 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2675 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2676 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2680 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2682 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2683 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2684 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2685 multiple binary packages.
2686 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2687 should rebuild them with this version.
2688 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2692 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2695 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2699 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2702 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2706 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2709 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2710 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2711 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2712 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2713 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2714 debian/README.debian.
2715 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2716 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2717 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2718 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2719 in a few situations.)
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2723 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2729 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2735 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2738 * Fixed several man pages.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2742 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2745 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2746 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2750 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2753 is ready for general use.
2754 * Added man pages for all commands.
2755 * Multiple binary package support.
2756 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2757 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2758 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2760 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2761 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2762 auto-installed as parameters.
2763 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2765 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2768 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2769 the package build directory it is to act on.
2770 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2771 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2772 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2776 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2778 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2779 ready to replace debstd.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400