1 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
8 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
14 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
20 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
23 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
27 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
33 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
39 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
42 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
43 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
44 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
45 I made some changes, though:
46 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
47 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
48 that is a clear violation of policy.
49 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
50 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
51 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
52 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
53 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
54 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
55 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
56 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
57 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
59 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
63 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
69 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
72 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
76 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
79 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
80 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
85 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
91 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
98 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
101 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
102 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
103 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
104 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
105 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
106 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
107 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
111 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
121 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
122 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
126 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
132 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
135 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
139 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
142 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
143 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
147 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
149 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
154 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
158 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
162 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
164 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
165 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
166 for the dependancies to be generated.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
170 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
173 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
177 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
180 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
181 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
182 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
187 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
190 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
191 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
195 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
201 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
207 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
210 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
214 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
220 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
222 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
223 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
224 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
225 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
226 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
227 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
228 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
229 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
230 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
231 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
232 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
233 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
234 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
238 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
240 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
241 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
242 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
244 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
245 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
246 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
247 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
248 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
249 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
251 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
252 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
256 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
259 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
263 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
270 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
272 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
273 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
278 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
281 for building debhelper.
282 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
286 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
293 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Fixed makefile commit target.
296 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
300 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
303 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
304 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
305 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
306 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
307 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
308 it's always available.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
312 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
315 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
316 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
317 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
321 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
324 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
325 modules. (Closes: #42171)
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
329 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
335 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
338 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
342 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
348 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
351 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
352 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
353 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
357 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
360 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
365 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
368 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
369 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
371 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
372 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
376 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
382 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
388 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
390 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
391 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
395 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
398 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
399 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
401 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
405 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
408 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
409 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
410 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
414 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
417 things if CDPATH is set.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
421 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
427 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
430 seems to make sense for the transition.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
434 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
437 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
442 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
445 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
446 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
450 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
453 that version. (Closes: #40589)
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
457 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
459 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
460 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
461 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
462 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
463 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
467 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
473 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
476 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
477 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
478 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
479 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
480 * debhelper.1: documented this.
481 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
482 current compatability level is equal to that number.
483 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
484 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
485 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
490 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
492 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
493 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
494 * README: mention doc/v2
495 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
496 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
500 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
502 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
503 be using this script RSN.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
507 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
510 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
511 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
512 more than 1 init script.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
516 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
519 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
523 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Changed perl version detection.
526 * Changed call to find.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
530 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
533 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
535 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
540 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Really include dh_installpam.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
546 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
549 * Wrote man page for same.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
553 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
556 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
557 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
562 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
569 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
572 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
573 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
574 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
579 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
582 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
583 well. (Closes: 38900)
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
587 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
590 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
591 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
595 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
601 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
608 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
614 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
616 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
617 help from Julian Gilbey.
618 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
619 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
620 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
621 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
622 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
623 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
624 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
629 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
635 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
637 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
642 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
648 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
654 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
657 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
661 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
664 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
668 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
671 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
675 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
681 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
684 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
688 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
690 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
694 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
696 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
700 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
703 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
704 may be deleted. (#35845)
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
708 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Various man page enhancements.
711 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
716 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
719 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
720 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
724 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
727 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
728 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
729 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
731 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
732 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
737 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
743 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Another very minor typo fix.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
749 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Very minor typo fix.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
755 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
758 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
759 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
763 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
769 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
771 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
772 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
773 variables properly (#34850).
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
777 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
779 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
783 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
786 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
787 (automatically generated by build process).
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
791 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
793 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
797 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
800 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
801 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
803 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
807 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
810 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
814 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
816 * README: minor typo fix.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
820 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
823 leave it at that. :-)
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
827 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
833 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
839 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
842 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
843 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
844 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
848 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
851 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
855 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
858 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
862 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
865 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
866 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
867 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
868 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
872 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
875 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
876 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
877 Craig Small for spotting this.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
881 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
884 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
885 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
889 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
895 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
898 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
902 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
904 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
905 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
906 working on the last version of debhelper.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
910 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
917 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
919 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
923 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
926 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
930 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
932 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
933 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
934 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
935 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
936 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
940 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
943 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
944 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
945 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
946 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
948 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
949 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
951 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
956 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
958 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
962 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
968 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
971 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
972 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
973 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
974 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
975 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
976 suidregister actually supports it.
977 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
978 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
982 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
989 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
992 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
993 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
994 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
995 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
996 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
997 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
998 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1002 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1004 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1005 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1009 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1012 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1013 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1014 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1015 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1019 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1022 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1024 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1025 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1026 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1027 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1028 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1029 effect, either. (#30118)
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1033 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1039 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1042 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1043 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1047 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1053 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1056 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1057 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1058 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1059 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1063 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1066 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1067 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1071 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1077 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1080 packages, painlessly.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1084 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1090 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1096 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1102 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * The perl conversion is complete.
1106 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1108 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1109 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1110 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1115 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1118 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1119 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1120 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1124 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1127 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1129 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1131 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1132 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1136 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1139 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1140 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1144 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1150 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1153 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1154 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1155 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1156 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1157 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1161 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1164 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1165 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1166 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1167 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1171 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1174 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1178 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1181 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1182 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1183 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1184 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1185 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1186 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1187 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1188 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1192 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1198 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1201 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1202 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1203 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1208 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1211 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1215 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1218 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1222 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1225 sections of shared libraries.
1226 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1227 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1228 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1229 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1230 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1231 things you don't want them to.
1232 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1233 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1237 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1240 shared libraries. (#26414)
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1244 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1246 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1247 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1248 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1249 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1253 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1257 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1259 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1260 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1261 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1262 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1263 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1267 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1270 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1274 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1277 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1278 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1283 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1286 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1290 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1293 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1294 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1295 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1296 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1297 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1299 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1300 remove debian/files properly.
1301 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1302 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1303 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1304 * Removed bogus menu file.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1308 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1311 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1315 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1318 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1319 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1320 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1321 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1322 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1323 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1327 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1330 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1331 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1332 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1333 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1337 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1344 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1347 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1348 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1350 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1351 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1352 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1353 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1354 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1355 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1359 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1362 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1363 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1364 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1365 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1366 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1367 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1368 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1369 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1370 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1371 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1372 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1373 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1374 passed any switches.
1375 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1379 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1382 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1383 at all for a long while.
1384 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1385 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1386 large chunks in the process.
1387 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1388 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1389 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1394 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1397 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1399 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1404 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1407 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1408 that don't always have the same files in them.
1409 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1410 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1411 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1415 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1419 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1420 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1421 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1422 updating 27 man pages.
1423 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1424 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1425 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1426 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1427 programs act on. (#25247)
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1431 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1435 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1436 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1437 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1438 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1439 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1440 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1445 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1452 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1459 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1462 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1466 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1472 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1475 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1476 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1477 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1478 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1479 package by accident.
1480 * Is version 1.0 next?
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1484 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1487 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1488 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1492 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1495 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1496 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1497 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1498 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1499 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1501 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1506 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1509 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1510 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1514 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1517 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1521 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1524 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1525 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1530 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1536 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1539 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1540 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1545 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1551 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1554 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1555 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1556 past week. Thanks, guys!
1558 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1559 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1560 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1561 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1562 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1563 would do in the same situation.
1564 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1565 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1567 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1569 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1570 permissions changed.
1571 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1572 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1573 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1574 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1575 files are treated identically.
1576 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1577 * Minor man page fixes.
1578 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1579 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1580 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1584 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1587 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1588 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1589 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1590 use -X multiple times, too.
1591 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1592 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1596 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1599 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1600 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1604 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1607 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1611 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1614 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1615 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1616 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1617 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1618 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1619 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1620 shape if you're starting a new package.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1624 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1627 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1631 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1634 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1635 because of missing symlinks.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1639 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1645 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1648 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1649 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1650 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1651 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1652 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1654 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1655 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1659 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1661 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1662 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1663 to be changed after the fact :-)
1664 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1668 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1671 no version string after the -V.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1675 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1677 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1678 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1683 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1686 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1690 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1693 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1694 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1695 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1696 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1697 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1698 I always welcome corrections!
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1702 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1708 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1711 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1712 * Documented this new switch.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1716 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1719 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1720 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1721 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1722 no packages use the old behavior.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1726 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1729 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1730 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1734 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1737 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1741 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1747 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1750 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1754 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1757 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1758 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1759 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1763 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1769 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1772 into the source package by accident.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1776 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1779 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1780 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1781 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1782 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1783 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1784 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1789 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1793 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1794 inspired to implement some of it.
1795 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1799 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1802 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1806 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1809 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1810 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1814 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1817 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1818 have done.) (#17598)
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1822 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1828 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1834 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1837 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1841 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1844 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1845 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1849 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1852 argument processor in perl.
1853 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1854 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1855 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1856 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1860 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1863 type directories. (#16933)
1864 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1865 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1866 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1867 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1868 are supported. (#16935)
1869 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1874 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1877 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1881 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1885 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1886 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1887 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1888 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1889 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1890 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1894 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1897 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1898 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1900 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1901 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1902 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1903 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1904 a given package, or -i or -a.
1905 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1906 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1907 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1908 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1909 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1910 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1911 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1912 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1913 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1915 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1916 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1917 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1921 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1924 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1925 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1930 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1933 does not have a section.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1937 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1940 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1941 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1942 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1946 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Fixed typo #16215.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1952 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1955 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1956 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1957 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1958 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1959 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1964 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1967 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1968 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1969 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1974 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1980 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1986 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1989 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1990 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1991 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1992 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1993 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1994 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1998 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2004 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2007 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2011 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2014 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2015 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2016 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2020 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2023 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2027 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2033 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2036 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2040 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2043 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2047 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2053 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2056 postinst, postrm, etc.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2060 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2066 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2069 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2070 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2071 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2072 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2073 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2077 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2080 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2081 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2085 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2088 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2092 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2095 installing package files into.
2096 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2101 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2105 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2109 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2115 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2118 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2122 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2125 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2126 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2127 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2128 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2132 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2134 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2135 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2136 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2137 multiple binary packages.
2138 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2139 should rebuild them with this version.
2140 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2144 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2147 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2151 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2154 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2158 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2161 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2162 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2163 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2164 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2165 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2166 debian/README.debian.
2167 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2168 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2169 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2170 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2171 in a few situations.)
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2175 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2181 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2187 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2190 * Fixed several man pages.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2194 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2197 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2198 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2202 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2205 is ready for general use.
2206 * Added man pages for all commands.
2207 * Multiple binary package support.
2208 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2209 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2210 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2212 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2213 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2214 auto-installed as parameters.
2215 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2217 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2220 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2221 the package build directory it is to act on.
2222 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2223 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2224 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2228 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2230 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2231 ready to replace debstd.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400