1 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
7 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
10 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
15 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
18 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
19 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
20 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
21 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
25 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
29 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
32 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
35 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
36 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
39 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
41 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
42 the TODO entry about it.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
46 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
53 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
56 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
57 prevent that. Closes: #73052
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
61 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Typo, Closes: #72932
64 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
65 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
66 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
67 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
71 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
77 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
84 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
87 (this appears to be logal).
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
91 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
94 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
95 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
96 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
97 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
101 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
107 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
109 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
110 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
111 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
112 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
113 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
117 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
123 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
126 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
130 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
137 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
140 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
141 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
142 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
147 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
154 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
160 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
162 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
163 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
164 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
165 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
166 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
167 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
168 notice until v2 is complete.
169 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
170 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
171 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
172 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
173 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
174 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
176 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
177 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
178 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
179 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
183 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
189 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
199 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
203 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
210 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
213 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
214 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
215 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
216 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
221 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
224 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
225 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
226 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
231 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
234 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
235 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
239 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
242 just skip files that end in -\d+.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
246 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
249 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
253 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
260 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
262 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
263 depend on the build and install targets.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
270 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
281 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
287 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
293 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
296 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
297 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
298 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
299 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
300 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
301 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
303 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
304 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
305 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
306 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
307 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
308 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
309 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
313 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
319 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
325 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
328 right place. Closes: #55065
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
332 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
339 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Make all examples rules files executable.
342 * Copyright date updates.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
346 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
349 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
354 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
360 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
367 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
373 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
379 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
385 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
388 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
389 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
390 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
391 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
392 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
393 bits until all files have been registered.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
397 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_installmanpages:
400 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
401 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
402 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
403 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
404 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
405 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
406 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
407 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
408 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
409 otherwise change the result at all.
411 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
412 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
413 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
414 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
415 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
420 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
426 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
429 act on files that don't exist.
430 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
431 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
432 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
434 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
435 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
436 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
437 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
441 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
447 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
453 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
456 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
460 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
463 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
465 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
466 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
467 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
471 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
474 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
475 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
476 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
477 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
478 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
479 does not compress. Closes: #41733
480 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
482 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
484 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
488 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
495 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
501 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
507 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
510 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
514 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
520 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
526 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
529 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
530 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
531 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
532 I made some changes, though:
533 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
534 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
535 that is a clear violation of policy.
536 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
537 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
538 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
539 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
540 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
541 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
542 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
543 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
544 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
546 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
550 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
556 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
559 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
566 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
567 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
572 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
578 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
585 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
588 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
589 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
590 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
591 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
592 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
593 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
594 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
598 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
604 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
608 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
609 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
613 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
619 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
622 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
626 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
629 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
630 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
634 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
636 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
641 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
645 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
651 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
652 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
653 for the dependancies to be generated.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
657 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
660 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
664 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
667 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
668 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
669 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
674 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
677 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
678 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
682 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
688 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
694 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
697 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
701 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
707 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
709 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
710 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
711 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
712 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
713 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
714 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
715 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
716 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
717 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
718 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
719 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
720 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
721 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
725 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
727 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
728 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
729 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
731 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
732 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
733 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
734 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
735 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
736 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
738 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
739 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
743 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
746 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
750 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
757 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
759 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
760 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
765 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
768 for building debhelper.
769 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
773 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
780 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Fixed makefile commit target.
783 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
787 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
790 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
791 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
792 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
793 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
794 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
795 it's always available.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
802 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
803 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
804 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
811 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
812 modules. (Closes: #42171)
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
816 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
822 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
825 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
829 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
835 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
838 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
839 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
840 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
844 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
847 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
852 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
855 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
856 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
858 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
859 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
863 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
869 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
875 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
877 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
878 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
882 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
885 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
886 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
888 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
892 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
895 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
896 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
897 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
901 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
904 things if CDPATH is set.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
908 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
914 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
917 seems to make sense for the transition.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
921 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
924 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
929 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
932 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
933 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
937 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
940 that version. (Closes: #40589)
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
944 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
946 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
947 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
948 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
949 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
950 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
954 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
960 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
963 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
964 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
965 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
966 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
967 * debhelper.1: documented this.
968 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
969 current compatability level is equal to that number.
970 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
971 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
972 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
977 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
979 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
980 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
981 * README: mention doc/v2
982 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
983 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
987 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
989 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
990 be using this script RSN.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
994 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
997 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
998 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
999 more than 1 init script.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1003 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1006 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1010 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Changed perl version detection.
1013 * Changed call to find.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1017 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1020 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1022 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1027 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Really include dh_installpam.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1033 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1036 * Wrote man page for same.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1040 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1043 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1044 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1049 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1056 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1059 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1060 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1061 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1062 x bit was being set!
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1066 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1069 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1070 well. (Closes: 38900)
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1074 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1077 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1078 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1082 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1088 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1095 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1101 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1104 help from Julian Gilbey.
1105 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1106 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1107 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1108 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1109 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1110 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1111 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1116 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1122 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1129 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1135 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1141 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1144 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1148 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1151 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1155 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1158 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1162 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1168 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1171 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1175 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1181 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1187 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1190 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1191 may be deleted. (#35845)
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1195 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Various man page enhancements.
1198 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1203 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1206 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1207 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1211 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1214 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1215 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1216 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1218 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1219 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1224 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1230 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Another very minor typo fix.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1236 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Very minor typo fix.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1242 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1245 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1246 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1250 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1256 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1259 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1260 variables properly (#34850).
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1264 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1270 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1273 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1274 (automatically generated by build process).
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1278 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1280 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1284 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1287 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1288 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1290 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1294 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1297 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1301 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * README: minor typo fix.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1307 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1310 leave it at that. :-)
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1314 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1320 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1326 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1329 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1330 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1331 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1335 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1338 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1342 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1345 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1349 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1352 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1353 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1354 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1355 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1359 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1362 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1363 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1364 Craig Small for spotting this.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1368 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1371 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1372 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1376 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1382 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1385 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1389 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1391 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1392 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1393 working on the last version of debhelper.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1397 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1400 being made. (#23255)
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1404 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1410 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1413 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1417 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1420 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1421 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1422 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1423 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1427 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1430 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1431 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1432 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1433 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1435 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1436 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1438 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1443 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1449 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1455 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1458 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1459 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1460 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1461 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1462 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1463 suidregister actually supports it.
1464 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1465 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1469 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1476 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1479 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1480 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1481 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1482 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1483 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1484 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1485 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1489 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1491 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1492 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1496 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1499 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1500 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1501 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1502 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1506 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1509 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1511 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1512 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1513 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1514 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1515 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1516 effect, either. (#30118)
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1520 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1526 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1529 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1530 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1534 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1540 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1543 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1544 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1545 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1546 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1550 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1553 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1554 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1558 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1564 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1567 packages, painlessly.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1571 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1577 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1583 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1589 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * The perl conversion is complete.
1593 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1595 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1596 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1597 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1602 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1605 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1606 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1607 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1611 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1614 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1616 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1618 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1619 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1623 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1626 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1627 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1631 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1637 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1640 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1641 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1642 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1643 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1644 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1648 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1651 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1652 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1653 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1654 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1658 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1661 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1665 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1668 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1669 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1670 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1671 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1672 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1673 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1674 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1675 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1679 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1685 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1688 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1689 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1690 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1695 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1698 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1702 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1705 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1709 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1712 sections of shared libraries.
1713 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1714 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1715 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1716 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1717 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1718 things you don't want them to.
1719 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1720 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1724 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1727 shared libraries. (#26414)
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1731 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1733 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1734 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1735 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1736 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1740 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1744 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1746 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1747 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1748 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1749 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1750 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1754 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1757 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1761 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1764 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1765 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1770 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1773 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1777 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1780 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1781 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1782 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1783 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1784 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1786 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1787 remove debian/files properly.
1788 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1789 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1790 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1791 * Removed bogus menu file.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1795 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1798 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1802 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1805 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1806 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1807 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1808 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1809 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1810 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1814 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1817 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1818 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1819 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1820 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1824 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1831 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1834 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1835 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1837 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1838 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1839 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1840 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1841 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1842 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1846 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1849 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1850 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1851 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1852 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1853 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1854 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1855 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1856 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1857 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1858 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1859 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1860 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1861 passed any switches.
1862 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1866 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1869 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1870 at all for a long while.
1871 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1872 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1873 large chunks in the process.
1874 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1875 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1876 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1881 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1884 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1886 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1891 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1894 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1895 that don't always have the same files in them.
1896 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1897 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1898 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1902 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1906 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1907 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1908 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1909 updating 27 man pages.
1910 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1911 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1912 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1913 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1914 programs act on. (#25247)
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1918 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1922 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1923 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1924 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1925 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1926 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1927 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1932 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1939 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1946 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1949 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1953 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1959 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1962 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1963 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1964 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1965 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1966 package by accident.
1967 * Is version 1.0 next?
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1971 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1974 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1975 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1979 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1982 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1983 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1984 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1985 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1986 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1988 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1993 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1996 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1997 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2001 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2004 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2008 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2011 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2012 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2017 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2023 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2026 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2027 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2032 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2038 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2041 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2042 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2043 past week. Thanks, guys!
2045 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2046 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2047 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2048 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2049 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2050 would do in the same situation.
2051 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2052 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2054 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2056 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2057 permissions changed.
2058 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2059 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2060 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2061 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2062 files are treated identically.
2063 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2064 * Minor man page fixes.
2065 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2066 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2067 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2071 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2074 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2075 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2076 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2077 use -X multiple times, too.
2078 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2079 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2083 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2086 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2087 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2091 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2094 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2098 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2101 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2102 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2103 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2104 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2105 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2106 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2107 shape if you're starting a new package.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2111 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2114 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2118 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2121 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2122 because of missing symlinks.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2126 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2132 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2135 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2136 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2137 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2138 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2139 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2141 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2142 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2146 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2148 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2149 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2150 to be changed after the fact :-)
2151 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2155 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2158 no version string after the -V.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2162 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2164 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2165 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2170 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2173 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2177 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2180 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2181 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2182 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2183 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2184 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2185 I always welcome corrections!
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2189 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2195 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2198 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2199 * Documented this new switch.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2203 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2206 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2207 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2208 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2209 no packages use the old behavior.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2213 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2216 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2217 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2221 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2224 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2228 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2234 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2237 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2241 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2244 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2245 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2246 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2250 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2256 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2259 into the source package by accident.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2263 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2266 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2267 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2268 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2269 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2270 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2271 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2276 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2280 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2281 inspired to implement some of it.
2282 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2286 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2289 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2293 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2296 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2297 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2301 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2304 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2305 have done.) (#17598)
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2309 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2315 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2321 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2324 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2328 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2331 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2332 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2336 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2339 argument processor in perl.
2340 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2341 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2342 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2343 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2347 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2350 type directories. (#16933)
2351 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2352 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2353 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2354 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2355 are supported. (#16935)
2356 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2361 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2364 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2368 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2372 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2373 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2374 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2375 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2376 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2377 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2381 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2384 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2385 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2387 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2388 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2389 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2390 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2391 a given package, or -i or -a.
2392 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2393 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2394 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2395 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2396 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2397 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2398 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2399 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2400 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2402 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2403 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2404 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2408 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2411 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2412 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2417 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2420 does not have a section.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2424 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2427 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2428 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2429 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2433 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Fixed typo #16215.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2439 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2442 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2443 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2444 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2445 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2446 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2451 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2454 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2455 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2456 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2461 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2467 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2473 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2476 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2477 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2478 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2479 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2480 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2481 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2485 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2491 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2494 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2498 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2501 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2502 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2503 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2507 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2510 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2514 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2520 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2523 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2527 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2530 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2534 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2540 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2543 postinst, postrm, etc.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2547 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2553 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2556 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2557 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2558 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2559 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2560 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2564 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2567 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2568 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2572 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2575 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2579 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2582 installing package files into.
2583 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2588 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2592 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2596 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2602 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2605 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2609 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2612 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2613 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2614 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2615 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2619 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2621 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2622 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2623 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2624 multiple binary packages.
2625 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2626 should rebuild them with this version.
2627 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2631 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2634 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2638 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2641 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2645 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2648 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2649 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2650 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2651 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2652 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2653 debian/README.debian.
2654 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2655 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2656 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2657 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2658 in a few situations.)
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2662 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2668 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2674 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2677 * Fixed several man pages.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2681 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2684 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2685 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2689 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2692 is ready for general use.
2693 * Added man pages for all commands.
2694 * Multiple binary package support.
2695 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2696 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2697 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2699 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2700 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2701 auto-installed as parameters.
2702 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2704 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2707 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2708 the package build directory it is to act on.
2709 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2710 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2711 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2715 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2717 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2718 ready to replace debstd.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400