1 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
5 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
6 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
7 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
11 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
17 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
24 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
27 (this appears to be logal).
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
31 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
34 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
35 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
36 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
37 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
41 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
47 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
49 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
50 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
51 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
52 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
53 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
57 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
63 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
66 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
70 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
77 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
80 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
81 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
82 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
87 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
94 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
100 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
102 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
103 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
104 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
105 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
106 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
107 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
108 notice until v2 is complete.
109 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
110 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
111 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
112 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
113 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
114 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
116 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
117 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
118 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
119 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
123 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
129 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
136 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
139 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
143 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
150 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
153 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
154 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
155 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
156 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
161 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
164 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
165 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
166 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
171 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
174 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
175 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
179 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
182 just skip files that end in -\d+.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
186 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
189 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
193 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
200 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
202 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
203 depend on the build and install targets.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
207 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
210 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
214 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
221 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
227 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
233 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
236 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
237 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
238 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
239 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
240 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
241 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
243 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
244 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
245 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
246 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
247 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
248 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
249 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
253 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
259 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
265 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
268 right place. Closes: #55065
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
272 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
279 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Make all examples rules files executable.
282 * Copyright date updates.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
286 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
289 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
294 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
300 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
307 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
313 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
319 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
325 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
328 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
329 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
330 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
331 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
332 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
333 bits until all files have been registered.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
337 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_installmanpages:
340 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
341 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
342 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
343 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
344 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
345 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
346 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
347 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
348 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
349 otherwise change the result at all.
351 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
352 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
353 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
354 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
355 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
360 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
366 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
369 act on files that don't exist.
370 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
371 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
372 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
374 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
375 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
376 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
377 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
381 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
387 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
393 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
396 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
400 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
403 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
405 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
406 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
407 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
411 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
414 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
415 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
416 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
417 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
418 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
419 does not compress. Closes: #41733
420 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
422 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
424 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
428 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
435 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
441 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
447 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
450 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
454 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
460 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
466 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
469 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
470 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
471 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
472 I made some changes, though:
473 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
474 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
475 that is a clear violation of policy.
476 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
477 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
478 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
479 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
480 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
481 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
482 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
483 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
484 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
486 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
490 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
496 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
499 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
503 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
506 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
507 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
512 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
518 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
525 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
528 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
529 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
530 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
531 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
532 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
533 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
534 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
538 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
544 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
548 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
549 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
553 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
559 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
562 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
566 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
569 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
570 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
574 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
576 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
581 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
585 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
589 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
591 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
592 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
593 for the dependancies to be generated.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
597 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
600 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
604 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
607 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
608 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
609 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
614 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
617 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
618 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
622 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
628 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
634 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
637 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
641 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
647 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
649 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
650 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
651 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
652 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
653 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
654 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
655 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
656 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
657 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
658 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
659 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
660 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
661 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
665 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
667 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
668 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
669 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
671 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
672 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
673 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
674 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
675 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
676 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
678 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
679 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
683 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
686 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
690 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
697 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
699 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
700 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
705 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
708 for building debhelper.
709 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
713 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
720 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Fixed makefile commit target.
723 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
727 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
730 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
731 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
732 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
733 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
734 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
735 it's always available.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
739 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
742 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
743 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
744 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
748 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
751 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
752 modules. (Closes: #42171)
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
756 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
762 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
765 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
769 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
775 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
778 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
779 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
780 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
784 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
787 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
795 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
796 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
798 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
799 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
803 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
809 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
815 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
817 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
818 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
822 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
825 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
826 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
828 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
832 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
835 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
836 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
837 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
841 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
844 things if CDPATH is set.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
848 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
854 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
857 seems to make sense for the transition.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
861 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
864 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
869 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
872 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
873 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
880 that version. (Closes: #40589)
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
884 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
886 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
887 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
888 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
889 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
890 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
894 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
900 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
903 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
904 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
905 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
906 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
907 * debhelper.1: documented this.
908 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
909 current compatability level is equal to that number.
910 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
911 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
912 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
917 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
919 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
920 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
921 * README: mention doc/v2
922 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
923 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
927 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
929 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
930 be using this script RSN.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
934 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
937 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
938 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
939 more than 1 init script.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
943 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
946 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
950 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Changed perl version detection.
953 * Changed call to find.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
957 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
960 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
962 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
967 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Really include dh_installpam.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
973 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
976 * Wrote man page for same.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
980 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
983 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
984 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
989 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
996 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
999 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1000 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1001 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1002 x bit was being set!
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1006 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1009 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1010 well. (Closes: 38900)
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1014 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1017 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1018 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1022 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1028 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1035 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1041 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1044 help from Julian Gilbey.
1045 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1046 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1047 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1048 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1049 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1050 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1051 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1056 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1062 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1069 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1075 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1081 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1084 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1088 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1091 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1095 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1098 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1102 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1108 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1111 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1115 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1121 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1127 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1130 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1131 may be deleted. (#35845)
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1135 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Various man page enhancements.
1138 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1143 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1146 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1147 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1151 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1154 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1155 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1156 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1158 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1159 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1164 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1170 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Another very minor typo fix.
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1176 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Very minor typo fix.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1182 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1185 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1186 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1190 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1196 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1199 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1200 variables properly (#34850).
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1204 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1210 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1213 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1214 (automatically generated by build process).
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1218 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1220 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1224 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1227 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1228 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1230 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1234 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1237 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1241 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * README: minor typo fix.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1247 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1250 leave it at that. :-)
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1254 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1260 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1266 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1269 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1270 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1271 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1275 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1278 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1282 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1285 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1289 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1292 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1293 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1294 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1295 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1299 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1302 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1303 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1304 Craig Small for spotting this.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1308 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1311 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1312 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1316 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1322 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1325 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1329 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1331 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1332 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1333 working on the last version of debhelper.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1337 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1340 being made. (#23255)
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1344 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1350 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1353 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1357 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1360 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1361 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1362 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1363 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1367 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1370 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1371 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1372 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1373 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1375 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1376 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1378 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1383 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1389 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1395 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1398 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1399 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1400 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1401 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1402 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1403 suidregister actually supports it.
1404 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1405 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1409 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1416 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1419 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1420 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1421 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1422 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1423 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1424 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1425 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1429 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1431 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1432 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1436 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1439 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1440 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1441 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1442 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1446 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1449 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1451 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1452 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1453 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1454 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1455 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1456 effect, either. (#30118)
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1460 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1466 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1469 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1470 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1474 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1480 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1483 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1484 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1485 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1486 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1490 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1493 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1494 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1498 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1504 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1507 packages, painlessly.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1511 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1517 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1523 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1529 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * The perl conversion is complete.
1533 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1535 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1536 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1537 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1542 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1545 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1546 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1547 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1551 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1554 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1556 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1558 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1559 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1563 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1566 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1567 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1571 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1577 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1580 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1581 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1582 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1583 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1584 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1588 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1591 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1592 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1593 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1594 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1598 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1601 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1605 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1608 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1609 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1610 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1611 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1612 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1613 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1614 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1615 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1619 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1625 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1628 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1629 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1630 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1635 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1638 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1642 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1645 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1649 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1652 sections of shared libraries.
1653 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1654 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1655 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1656 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1657 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1658 things you don't want them to.
1659 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1660 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1664 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1667 shared libraries. (#26414)
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1671 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1673 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1674 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1675 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1676 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1680 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1684 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1686 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1687 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1688 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1689 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1690 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1694 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1697 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1701 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1704 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1705 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1710 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1713 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1717 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1720 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1721 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1722 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1723 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1724 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1726 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1727 remove debian/files properly.
1728 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1729 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1730 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1731 * Removed bogus menu file.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1735 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1738 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1742 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1745 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1746 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1747 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1748 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1749 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1750 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1754 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1757 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1758 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1759 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1760 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1764 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1771 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1774 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1775 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1777 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1778 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1779 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1780 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1781 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1782 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1786 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1789 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1790 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1791 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1792 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1793 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1794 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1795 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1796 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1797 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1798 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1799 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1800 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1801 passed any switches.
1802 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1806 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1809 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1810 at all for a long while.
1811 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1812 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1813 large chunks in the process.
1814 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1815 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1816 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1821 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1824 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1826 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1831 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1834 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1835 that don't always have the same files in them.
1836 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1837 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1838 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1842 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1846 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1847 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1848 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1849 updating 27 man pages.
1850 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1851 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1852 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1853 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1854 programs act on. (#25247)
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1858 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1862 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1863 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1864 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1865 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1866 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1867 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1872 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1879 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1886 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1889 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1893 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1899 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1902 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1903 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1904 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1905 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1906 package by accident.
1907 * Is version 1.0 next?
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1911 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1914 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1915 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1919 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1922 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1923 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1924 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1925 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1926 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1928 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1933 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1936 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1937 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1941 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1944 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1948 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1951 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1952 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1957 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1963 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1966 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1967 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1972 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1978 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1981 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1982 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1983 past week. Thanks, guys!
1985 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1986 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1987 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1988 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1989 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1990 would do in the same situation.
1991 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1992 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1994 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1996 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1997 permissions changed.
1998 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1999 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2000 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2001 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2002 files are treated identically.
2003 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2004 * Minor man page fixes.
2005 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2006 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2007 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2011 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2014 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2015 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2016 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2017 use -X multiple times, too.
2018 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2019 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2023 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2026 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2027 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2031 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2034 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2038 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2041 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2042 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2043 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2044 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2045 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2046 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2047 shape if you're starting a new package.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2051 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2054 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2058 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2061 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2062 because of missing symlinks.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2066 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2072 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2075 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2076 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2077 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2078 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2079 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2081 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2082 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2086 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2088 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2089 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2090 to be changed after the fact :-)
2091 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2095 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2098 no version string after the -V.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2102 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2104 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2105 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2110 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2113 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2117 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2120 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2121 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2122 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2123 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2124 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2125 I always welcome corrections!
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2129 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2135 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2138 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2139 * Documented this new switch.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2143 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2146 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2147 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2148 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2149 no packages use the old behavior.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2153 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2156 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2157 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2161 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2164 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2168 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2174 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2177 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2181 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2184 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2185 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2186 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2190 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2196 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2199 into the source package by accident.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2203 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2206 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2207 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2208 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2209 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2210 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2211 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2216 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2220 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2221 inspired to implement some of it.
2222 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2226 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2229 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2233 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2236 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2237 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2241 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2244 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2245 have done.) (#17598)
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2249 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2255 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2261 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2264 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2268 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2271 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2272 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2276 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2279 argument processor in perl.
2280 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2281 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2282 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2283 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2287 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2290 type directories. (#16933)
2291 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2292 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2293 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2294 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2295 are supported. (#16935)
2296 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2301 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2304 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2308 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2312 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2313 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2314 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2315 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2316 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2317 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2321 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2324 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2325 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2327 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2328 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2329 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2330 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2331 a given package, or -i or -a.
2332 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2333 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2334 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2335 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2336 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2337 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2338 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2339 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2340 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2342 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2343 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2344 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2348 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2351 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2352 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2357 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2360 does not have a section.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2364 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2367 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2368 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2369 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2373 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Fixed typo #16215.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2379 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2382 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2383 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2384 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2385 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2386 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2391 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2394 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2395 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2396 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2401 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2407 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2413 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2416 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2417 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2418 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2419 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2420 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2421 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2425 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2431 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2434 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2438 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2441 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2442 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2443 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2447 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2450 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2454 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2460 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2463 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2467 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2470 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2474 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2480 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2483 postinst, postrm, etc.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2487 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2493 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2496 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2497 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2498 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2499 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2500 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2504 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2507 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2508 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2512 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2515 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2519 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2522 installing package files into.
2523 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2528 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2532 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2536 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2542 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2545 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2549 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2552 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2553 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2554 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2555 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2559 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2561 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2562 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2563 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2564 multiple binary packages.
2565 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2566 should rebuild them with this version.
2567 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2571 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2574 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2578 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2581 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2585 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2588 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2589 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2590 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2591 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2592 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2593 debian/README.debian.
2594 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2595 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2596 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2597 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2598 in a few situations.)
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2602 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2608 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2614 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2617 * Fixed several man pages.
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2621 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2624 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2625 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2629 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2632 is ready for general use.
2633 * Added man pages for all commands.
2634 * Multiple binary package support.
2635 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2636 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2637 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2639 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2640 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2641 auto-installed as parameters.
2642 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2644 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2647 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2648 the package build directory it is to act on.
2649 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2650 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2651 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2655 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2657 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2658 ready to replace debstd.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400