1 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
8 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
11 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
12 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
13 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
14 followed. Closes: #85483
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
18 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
20 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
21 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
22 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
26 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
29 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
30 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
31 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
32 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
33 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
34 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
35 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
36 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
37 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
38 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
39 Closes: #88464, #77743
40 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
41 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
42 us to deal with that gracefully.
43 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
45 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
46 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
47 a while, Closes: #51225
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
51 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
57 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
60 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
64 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
68 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
73 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
76 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
77 don't make packlist files.
78 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
79 debhelper coding standards.
80 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
81 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
85 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
88 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
92 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
95 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
96 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
97 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
98 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
99 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
100 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
101 but is mildly deprecated.
102 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
103 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
104 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
105 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
106 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
107 switching to statoverrides..
108 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
109 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
110 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
111 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
112 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
113 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
115 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
116 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
117 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
118 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
119 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
120 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
121 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
122 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
123 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
125 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
126 variable names, pod man pages).
127 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
128 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
129 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
130 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
131 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
132 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
133 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
137 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
143 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
150 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
153 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
157 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
159 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
160 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
161 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
165 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
167 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
168 they were previously ignored.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
172 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
174 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
175 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
179 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
181 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
182 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
183 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
187 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
189 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
193 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
195 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
196 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
200 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
202 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
203 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
204 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
205 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
206 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
207 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
208 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
209 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
210 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
211 it is an obsolete program.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
215 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
217 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
221 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
225 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
227 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
231 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
233 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
235 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
237 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
241 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
247 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
249 * typo: Closes, #78567
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
253 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
259 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
265 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
267 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
268 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
269 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
270 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
271 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
272 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
276 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
279 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
284 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
287 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
288 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
289 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
290 backwards-compatability.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
294 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
296 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
297 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
298 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
299 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
300 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
301 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
302 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
304 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
305 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
306 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
308 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
310 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
311 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
312 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
313 should now be raised to severity important..
314 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
315 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
319 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
322 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
327 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Typo, Closes: #77441
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
333 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Completed the fix from the last version.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
339 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
345 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
347 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
352 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
355 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
356 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
357 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
358 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
362 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
368 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
371 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
372 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
373 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
374 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
375 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
376 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
381 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
384 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
388 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
394 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
397 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
402 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
405 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
406 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
407 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
408 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
412 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
416 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
419 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
422 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
423 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
426 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
428 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
429 the TODO entry about it.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
433 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
440 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
443 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
444 prevent that. Closes: #73052
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
448 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Typo, Closes: #72932
451 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
452 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
453 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
454 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
458 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
464 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
471 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
474 (this appears to be logal).
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
478 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
481 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
482 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
483 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
484 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
488 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
494 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
496 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
497 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
498 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
499 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
500 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
504 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
510 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
513 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
517 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
524 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
527 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
528 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
529 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
534 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
541 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
547 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
549 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
550 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
551 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
552 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
553 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
554 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
555 notice until v2 is complete.
556 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
557 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
558 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
559 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
560 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
561 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
563 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
564 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
565 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
566 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
576 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
583 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
586 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
590 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
597 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
600 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
601 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
602 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
603 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
608 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
611 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
612 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
613 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
618 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
621 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
622 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
626 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
629 just skip files that end in -\d+.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
633 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
636 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
640 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
647 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
649 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
650 depend on the build and install targets.
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
654 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
657 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
661 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
668 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
674 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
680 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
683 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
684 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
685 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
686 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
687 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
688 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
690 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
691 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
692 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
693 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
694 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
695 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
696 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
700 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
706 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
712 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
715 right place. Closes: #55065
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
719 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
726 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Make all examples rules files executable.
729 * Copyright date updates.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
733 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
736 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
741 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
747 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
754 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
760 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
766 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
772 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
775 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
776 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
777 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
778 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
779 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
780 bits until all files have been registered.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
784 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_installmanpages:
787 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
788 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
789 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
790 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
791 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
792 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
793 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
794 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
795 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
796 otherwise change the result at all.
798 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
799 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
800 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
801 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
802 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
807 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
813 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
816 act on files that don't exist.
817 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
818 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
819 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
821 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
822 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
823 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
824 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
828 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
834 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
840 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
843 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
847 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
850 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
852 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
853 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
854 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
858 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
861 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
862 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
863 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
864 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
865 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
866 does not compress. Closes: #41733
867 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
869 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
871 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
875 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
882 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
888 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
894 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
897 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
901 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
907 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
913 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
916 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
917 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
918 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
919 I made some changes, though:
920 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
921 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
922 that is a clear violation of policy.
923 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
924 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
925 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
926 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
927 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
928 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
929 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
930 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
931 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
933 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
937 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
943 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
946 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
950 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
953 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
954 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
959 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
965 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
972 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
975 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
976 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
977 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
978 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
979 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
980 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
981 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
985 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
991 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
995 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
996 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1000 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1006 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1009 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1013 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1016 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1017 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1021 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1023 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1028 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1032 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1036 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1039 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1040 for the dependancies to be generated.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1044 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1047 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1051 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1054 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1055 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1056 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1061 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1064 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1065 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1069 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1075 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1084 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1088 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1094 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1097 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1098 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1099 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1100 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1101 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1102 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1103 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1104 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1105 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1106 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1107 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1108 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1112 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1115 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1116 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1118 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1119 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1120 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1121 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1122 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1123 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1125 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1126 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1133 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1137 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1144 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1147 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1152 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1155 for building debhelper.
1156 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1160 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1167 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1170 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1174 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1177 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1178 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1179 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1180 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1181 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1182 it's always available.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1189 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1190 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1191 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1195 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1198 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1199 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1203 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1212 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1222 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1225 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1226 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1227 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1231 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1234 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1242 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1243 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1245 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1246 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1250 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1256 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1262 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1265 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1269 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1272 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1273 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1275 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1279 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1282 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1283 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1284 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1291 things if CDPATH is set.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1295 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1301 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1304 seems to make sense for the transition.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1308 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1311 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1319 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1320 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1324 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1327 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1331 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1334 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1335 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1336 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1337 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1341 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1347 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1350 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1351 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1352 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1353 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1354 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1355 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1356 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1357 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1358 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1359 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1364 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1367 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1368 * README: mention doc/v2
1369 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1370 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1374 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1376 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1377 be using this script RSN.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1381 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1384 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1385 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1386 more than 1 init script.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1390 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1393 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1397 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Changed perl version detection.
1400 * Changed call to find.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1404 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1407 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1409 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1414 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Really include dh_installpam.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1420 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1423 * Wrote man page for same.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1427 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1430 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1431 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1436 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1443 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1446 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1447 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1448 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1449 x bit was being set!
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1453 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1456 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1457 well. (Closes: 38900)
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1461 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1464 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1465 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1469 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1475 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1482 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1488 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1491 help from Julian Gilbey.
1492 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1493 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1494 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1495 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1496 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1497 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1498 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1503 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1509 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1516 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1522 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1528 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1531 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1535 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1538 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1542 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1545 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1549 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1555 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1558 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1562 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1568 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1574 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1577 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1578 may be deleted. (#35845)
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1582 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Various man page enhancements.
1585 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1590 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1593 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1594 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1598 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1601 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1602 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1603 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1605 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1606 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1611 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1617 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Another very minor typo fix.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1623 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Very minor typo fix.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1629 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1632 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1633 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1637 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1643 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1646 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1647 variables properly (#34850).
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1651 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1657 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1660 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1661 (automatically generated by build process).
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1665 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1667 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1671 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1674 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1675 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1677 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1681 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1684 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1688 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * README: minor typo fix.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1694 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1697 leave it at that. :-)
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1701 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1707 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1713 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1716 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1717 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1718 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1722 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1725 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1729 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1732 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1736 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1739 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1740 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1741 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1742 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1746 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1749 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1750 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1751 Craig Small for spotting this.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1755 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1758 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1759 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1763 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1769 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1772 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1776 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1778 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1779 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1780 working on the last version of debhelper.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1784 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1787 being made. (#23255)
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1791 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1797 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1800 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1804 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1807 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1808 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1809 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1810 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1814 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1817 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1818 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1819 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1820 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1822 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1823 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1825 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1830 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1836 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1842 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1845 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1846 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1847 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1848 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1849 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1850 suidregister actually supports it.
1851 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1852 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1856 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1863 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1866 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1867 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1868 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1869 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1870 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1871 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1872 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1876 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1878 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1879 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1883 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1886 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1887 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1888 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1889 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1893 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1896 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1898 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1899 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1900 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1901 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1902 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1903 effect, either. (#30118)
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1907 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1913 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1916 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1917 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1921 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1927 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1930 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1931 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1932 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1933 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1937 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1940 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1941 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1945 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1951 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1954 packages, painlessly.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1958 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1964 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1970 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1976 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * The perl conversion is complete.
1980 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1982 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1983 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1984 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1989 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1992 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1993 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1994 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1998 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2001 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2003 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2005 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2006 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2010 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2013 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2014 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2018 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2024 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2027 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2028 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2029 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2030 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2031 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2035 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2038 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2039 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2040 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2041 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2045 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2048 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2052 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2055 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2056 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2057 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2058 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2059 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2060 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2061 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2062 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2066 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2072 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2075 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2076 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2077 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2082 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2085 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2089 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2092 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2096 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2099 sections of shared libraries.
2100 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2101 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2102 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2103 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2104 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2105 things you don't want them to.
2106 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2107 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2111 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2114 shared libraries. (#26414)
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2118 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2120 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2121 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2122 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2123 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2127 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2131 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2133 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2134 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2135 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2136 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2137 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2141 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2144 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2148 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2151 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2152 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2157 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2160 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2164 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2167 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2168 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2169 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2170 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2171 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2173 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2174 remove debian/files properly.
2175 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2176 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2177 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2178 * Removed bogus menu file.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2182 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2185 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2189 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2192 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2193 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2194 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2195 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2196 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2197 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2201 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2204 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2205 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2206 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2207 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2211 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2218 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2221 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2222 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2224 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2225 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2226 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2227 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2228 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2229 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2233 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2236 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2237 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2238 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2239 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2240 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2241 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2242 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2243 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2244 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2245 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2246 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2247 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2248 passed any switches.
2249 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2253 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2256 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2257 at all for a long while.
2258 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2259 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2260 large chunks in the process.
2261 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2262 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2263 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2268 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2271 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2273 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2278 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2281 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2282 that don't always have the same files in them.
2283 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2284 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2285 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2289 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2293 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2294 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2295 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2296 updating 27 man pages.
2297 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2298 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2299 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2300 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2301 programs act on. (#25247)
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2305 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2309 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2310 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2311 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2312 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2313 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2314 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2319 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2326 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2333 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2336 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2340 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2346 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2349 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2350 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2351 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2352 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2353 package by accident.
2354 * Is version 1.0 next?
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2358 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2361 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2362 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2366 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2369 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2370 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2371 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2372 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2373 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2375 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2380 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2383 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2384 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2388 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2391 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2395 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2398 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2399 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2404 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2410 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2413 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2414 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2419 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2425 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2428 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2429 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2430 past week. Thanks, guys!
2432 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2433 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2434 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2435 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2436 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2437 would do in the same situation.
2438 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2439 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2441 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2443 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2444 permissions changed.
2445 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2446 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2447 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2448 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2449 files are treated identically.
2450 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2451 * Minor man page fixes.
2452 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2453 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2454 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2458 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2461 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2462 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2463 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2464 use -X multiple times, too.
2465 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2466 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2470 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2473 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2474 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2478 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2481 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2485 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2488 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2489 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2490 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2491 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2492 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2493 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2494 shape if you're starting a new package.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2498 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2501 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2505 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2508 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2509 because of missing symlinks.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2513 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2519 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2522 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2523 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2524 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2525 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2526 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2528 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2529 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2533 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2535 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2536 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2537 to be changed after the fact :-)
2538 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2542 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2545 no version string after the -V.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2549 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2551 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2552 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2557 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2560 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2564 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2567 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2568 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2569 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2570 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2571 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2572 I always welcome corrections!
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2576 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2582 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2585 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2586 * Documented this new switch.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2590 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2593 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2594 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2595 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2596 no packages use the old behavior.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2600 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2603 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2604 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2608 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2611 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2615 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2621 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2624 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2628 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2631 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2632 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2633 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2637 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2643 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2646 into the source package by accident.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2650 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2653 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2654 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2655 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2656 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2657 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2658 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2663 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2667 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2668 inspired to implement some of it.
2669 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2673 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2676 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2680 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2683 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2684 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2688 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2691 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2692 have done.) (#17598)
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2696 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2702 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2708 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2711 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2715 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2718 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2719 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2723 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2726 argument processor in perl.
2727 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2728 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2729 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2730 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2734 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2737 type directories. (#16933)
2738 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2739 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2740 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2741 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2742 are supported. (#16935)
2743 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2748 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2751 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2755 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2759 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2760 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2761 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2762 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2763 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2764 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2768 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2771 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2772 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2774 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2775 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2776 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2777 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2778 a given package, or -i or -a.
2779 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2780 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2781 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2782 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2783 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2784 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2785 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2786 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2787 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2789 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2790 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2791 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2795 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2798 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2799 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2804 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2807 does not have a section.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2811 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2814 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2815 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2816 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2820 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Fixed typo #16215.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2826 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2829 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2830 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2831 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2832 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2833 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2838 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2841 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2842 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2843 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2848 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2854 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2860 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2863 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2864 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2865 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2866 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2867 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2868 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2872 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2878 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2881 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2885 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2888 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2889 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2890 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2894 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2897 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2901 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2907 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2910 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2914 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2917 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2921 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2927 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2930 postinst, postrm, etc.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2934 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2940 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2943 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2944 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2945 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2946 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2947 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2951 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2954 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2955 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2959 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2962 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2966 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2969 installing package files into.
2970 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2975 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2979 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2983 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2989 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2992 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2996 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2999 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3000 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3001 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3002 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3006 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3008 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3009 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3010 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3011 multiple binary packages.
3012 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3013 should rebuild them with this version.
3014 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3018 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3021 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3025 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3028 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3032 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3035 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3036 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3037 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3038 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3039 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3040 debian/README.debian.
3041 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3042 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3043 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3044 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3045 in a few situations.)
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3049 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3055 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3061 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3064 * Fixed several man pages.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3068 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3071 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3072 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3076 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3079 is ready for general use.
3080 * Added man pages for all commands.
3081 * Multiple binary package support.
3082 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3083 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3084 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3086 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3087 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3088 auto-installed as parameters.
3089 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3091 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3094 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3095 the package build directory it is to act on.
3096 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3097 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3098 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3102 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3104 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3105 ready to replace debstd.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400