1 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
5 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
10 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
13 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
14 don't make packlist files.
15 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
16 debhelper coding standards.
17 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
18 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
22 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
25 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
29 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
32 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
33 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
34 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
35 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
36 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
37 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
38 but is mildly deprecated.
39 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
40 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
41 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
42 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
43 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
44 switching to statoverrides..
45 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
46 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
47 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
48 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
49 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
50 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
52 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
53 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
54 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
55 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
56 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
57 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
58 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
59 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
60 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
62 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
63 variable names, pod man pages).
64 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
65 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
66 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
67 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
68 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
69 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
70 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
74 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
80 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
87 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
90 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
94 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
96 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
97 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
98 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
102 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
104 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
105 they were previously ignored.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
109 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
111 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
112 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
116 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
118 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
119 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
120 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
124 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
126 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
130 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
132 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
133 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
137 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
139 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
140 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
141 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
142 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
143 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
144 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
145 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
146 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
147 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
148 it is an obsolete program.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
152 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
154 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
158 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
162 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
164 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
168 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
170 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
172 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
174 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
178 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
184 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
186 * typo: Closes, #78567
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
190 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
196 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
202 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
204 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
205 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
206 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
207 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
208 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
209 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
213 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
216 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
221 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
224 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
225 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
226 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
227 backwards-compatability.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
231 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
233 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
234 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
235 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
236 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
237 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
238 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
239 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
241 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
242 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
243 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
245 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
247 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
248 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
249 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
250 should now be raised to severity important..
251 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
252 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
256 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
259 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
264 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Typo, Closes: #77441
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
270 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Completed the fix from the last version.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
276 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
282 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
284 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
289 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
292 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
293 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
294 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
295 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
299 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
305 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
308 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
309 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
310 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
311 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
312 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
313 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
318 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
321 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
325 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
331 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
334 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
339 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
342 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
343 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
344 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
345 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
349 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
353 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
356 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
359 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
360 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
363 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
365 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
366 the TODO entry about it.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
370 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
377 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
380 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
381 prevent that. Closes: #73052
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
385 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Typo, Closes: #72932
388 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
389 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
390 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
391 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
395 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
401 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
408 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
411 (this appears to be logal).
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
415 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
418 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
419 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
420 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
421 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
425 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
427 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
431 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
433 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
434 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
435 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
436 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
437 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
441 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
447 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
450 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
454 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
461 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
464 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
465 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
466 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
471 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
478 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
484 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
486 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
487 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
488 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
489 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
490 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
491 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
492 notice until v2 is complete.
493 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
494 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
495 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
496 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
497 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
498 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
500 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
501 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
502 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
503 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
507 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
513 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
520 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
523 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
527 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
534 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
537 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
538 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
539 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
540 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
545 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
548 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
549 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
550 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
555 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
558 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
559 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
566 just skip files that end in -\d+.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
573 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
577 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
584 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
586 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
587 depend on the build and install targets.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
591 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
593 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
594 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
598 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
605 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
611 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
617 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
620 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
621 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
622 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
623 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
624 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
625 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
627 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
628 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
629 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
630 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
631 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
632 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
633 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
637 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
643 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
649 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
652 right place. Closes: #55065
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
656 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
663 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Make all examples rules files executable.
666 * Copyright date updates.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
670 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
673 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
678 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
684 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
691 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
697 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
703 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
709 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
712 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
713 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
714 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
715 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
716 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
717 bits until all files have been registered.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
721 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_installmanpages:
724 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
725 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
726 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
727 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
728 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
729 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
730 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
731 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
732 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
733 otherwise change the result at all.
735 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
736 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
737 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
738 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
739 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
744 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
750 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
753 act on files that don't exist.
754 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
755 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
756 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
758 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
759 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
760 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
761 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
765 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
771 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
777 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
780 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
784 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
787 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
789 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
790 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
791 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
795 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
798 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
799 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
800 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
801 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
802 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
803 does not compress. Closes: #41733
804 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
806 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
808 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
812 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
819 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
825 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
831 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
834 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
844 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
850 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
853 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
854 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
855 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
856 I made some changes, though:
857 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
858 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
859 that is a clear violation of policy.
860 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
861 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
862 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
863 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
864 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
865 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
866 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
867 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
868 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
870 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
874 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
880 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
883 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
887 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
890 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
891 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
896 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
902 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
909 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
912 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
913 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
914 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
915 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
916 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
917 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
918 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
922 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
928 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
932 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
933 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
937 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
943 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
946 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
950 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
953 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
954 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
958 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
960 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
965 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
969 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
973 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
975 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
976 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
977 for the dependancies to be generated.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
981 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
984 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
988 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
991 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
992 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
993 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
998 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1001 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1002 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1006 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1012 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1021 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1025 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1034 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1035 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1036 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1037 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1038 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1039 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1040 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1041 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1042 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1043 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1044 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1045 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1049 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1052 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1053 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1055 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1056 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1057 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1058 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1059 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1060 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1062 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1063 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1070 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1074 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1084 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1089 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1092 for building debhelper.
1093 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1097 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1104 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1107 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1111 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1114 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1115 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1116 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1117 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1118 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1119 it's always available.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1126 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1127 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1128 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1132 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1135 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1136 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1140 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1146 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1149 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1153 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1162 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1163 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1164 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1168 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1171 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1176 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1179 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1180 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1182 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1183 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1187 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1193 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1199 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1202 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1206 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1209 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1210 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1212 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1219 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1220 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1221 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1225 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1228 things if CDPATH is set.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1241 seems to make sense for the transition.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1248 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1253 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1256 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1257 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1261 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1264 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1268 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1271 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1272 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1273 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1274 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1278 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1284 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1287 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1288 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1289 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1290 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1291 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1292 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1293 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1294 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1295 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1296 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1301 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1304 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1305 * README: mention doc/v2
1306 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1307 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1311 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1313 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1314 be using this script RSN.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1318 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1321 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1322 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1323 more than 1 init script.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1327 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1330 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1334 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Changed perl version detection.
1337 * Changed call to find.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1341 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1344 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1346 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1351 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Really include dh_installpam.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1357 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1360 * Wrote man page for same.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1364 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1367 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1368 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1373 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1380 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1383 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1384 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1385 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1386 x bit was being set!
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1390 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1393 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1394 well. (Closes: 38900)
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1398 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1401 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1402 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1406 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1412 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1419 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1425 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1428 help from Julian Gilbey.
1429 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1430 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1431 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1432 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1433 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1434 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1435 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1440 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1446 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1453 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1459 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1465 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1468 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1472 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1475 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1479 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1482 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1486 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1492 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1495 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1499 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1505 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1511 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1514 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1515 may be deleted. (#35845)
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1519 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Various man page enhancements.
1522 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1527 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1530 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1531 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1535 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1538 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1539 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1540 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1542 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1543 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1548 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1554 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Another very minor typo fix.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1560 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Very minor typo fix.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1566 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1569 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1570 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1574 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1580 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1583 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1584 variables properly (#34850).
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1588 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1594 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1597 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1598 (automatically generated by build process).
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1602 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1604 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1608 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1611 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1612 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1614 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1618 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1621 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1625 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * README: minor typo fix.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1631 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1634 leave it at that. :-)
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1638 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1644 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1650 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1653 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1654 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1655 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1659 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1662 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1666 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1669 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1673 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1676 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1677 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1678 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1679 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1683 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1686 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1687 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1688 Craig Small for spotting this.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1692 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1695 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1696 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1700 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1709 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1713 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1715 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1716 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1717 working on the last version of debhelper.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1721 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1724 being made. (#23255)
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1728 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1734 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1737 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1741 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1744 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1745 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1746 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1747 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1751 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1754 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1755 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1756 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1757 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1759 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1760 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1762 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1767 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1773 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1779 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1782 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1783 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1784 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1785 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1786 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1787 suidregister actually supports it.
1788 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1789 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1793 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1800 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1803 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1804 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1805 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1806 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1807 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1808 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1809 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1813 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1815 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1816 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1820 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1823 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1824 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1825 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1826 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1830 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1833 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1835 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1836 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1837 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1838 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1839 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1840 effect, either. (#30118)
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1844 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1850 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1853 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1854 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1858 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1864 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1867 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1868 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1869 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1870 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1874 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1877 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1878 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1882 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1888 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1891 packages, painlessly.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1895 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1901 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1907 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1913 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * The perl conversion is complete.
1917 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1919 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1920 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1921 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1926 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1929 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1930 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1931 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1935 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1938 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1940 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1942 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1943 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1947 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1950 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1951 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1955 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1961 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1964 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1965 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1966 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1967 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1968 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1972 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1975 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1976 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1977 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1978 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1982 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1985 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1989 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1992 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1993 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1994 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1995 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1996 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1997 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1998 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1999 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2003 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2009 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2012 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2013 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2014 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2019 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2022 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2026 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2029 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2033 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2036 sections of shared libraries.
2037 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2038 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2039 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2040 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2041 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2042 things you don't want them to.
2043 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2044 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2048 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2051 shared libraries. (#26414)
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2055 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2057 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2058 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2059 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2060 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2064 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2068 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2070 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2071 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2072 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2073 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2074 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2078 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2081 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2085 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2088 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2089 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2094 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2097 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2101 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2104 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2105 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2106 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2107 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2108 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2110 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2111 remove debian/files properly.
2112 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2113 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2114 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2115 * Removed bogus menu file.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2119 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2122 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2126 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2129 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2130 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2131 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2132 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2133 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2134 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2138 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2141 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2142 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2143 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2144 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2148 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2155 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2158 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2159 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2161 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2162 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2163 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2164 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2165 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2166 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2170 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2173 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2174 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2175 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2176 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2177 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2178 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2179 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2180 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2181 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2182 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2183 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2184 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2185 passed any switches.
2186 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2190 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2193 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2194 at all for a long while.
2195 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2196 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2197 large chunks in the process.
2198 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2199 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2200 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2205 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2208 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2210 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2215 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2218 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2219 that don't always have the same files in them.
2220 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2221 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2222 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2226 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2230 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2231 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2232 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2233 updating 27 man pages.
2234 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2235 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2236 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2237 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2238 programs act on. (#25247)
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2242 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2246 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2247 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2248 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2249 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2250 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2251 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2256 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2263 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2270 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2273 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2277 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2283 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2286 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2287 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2288 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2289 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2290 package by accident.
2291 * Is version 1.0 next?
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2295 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2298 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2299 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2303 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2306 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2307 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2308 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2309 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2310 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2312 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2317 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2320 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2321 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2325 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2328 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2332 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2335 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2336 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2341 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2347 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2350 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2351 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2356 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2362 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2365 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2366 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2367 past week. Thanks, guys!
2369 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2370 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2371 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2372 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2373 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2374 would do in the same situation.
2375 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2376 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2378 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2380 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2381 permissions changed.
2382 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2383 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2384 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2385 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2386 files are treated identically.
2387 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2388 * Minor man page fixes.
2389 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2390 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2391 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2395 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2398 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2399 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2400 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2401 use -X multiple times, too.
2402 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2403 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2407 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2410 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2411 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2415 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2418 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2422 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2425 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2426 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2427 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2428 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2429 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2430 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2431 shape if you're starting a new package.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2435 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2438 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2442 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2445 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2446 because of missing symlinks.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2450 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2456 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2459 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2460 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2461 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2462 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2463 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2465 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2466 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2470 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2472 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2473 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2474 to be changed after the fact :-)
2475 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2479 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2482 no version string after the -V.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2486 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2488 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2489 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2494 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2497 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2501 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2504 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2505 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2506 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2507 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2508 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2509 I always welcome corrections!
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2513 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2519 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2522 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2523 * Documented this new switch.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2527 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2530 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2531 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2532 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2533 no packages use the old behavior.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2537 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2540 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2541 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2545 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2548 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2552 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2558 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2561 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2565 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2568 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2569 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2570 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2574 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2580 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2583 into the source package by accident.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2587 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2590 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2591 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2592 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2593 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2594 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2595 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2600 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2604 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2605 inspired to implement some of it.
2606 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2610 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2613 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2617 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2620 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2621 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2625 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2628 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2629 have done.) (#17598)
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2633 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2639 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2645 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2648 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2652 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2655 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2656 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2660 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2663 argument processor in perl.
2664 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2665 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2666 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2667 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2671 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2674 type directories. (#16933)
2675 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2676 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2677 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2678 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2679 are supported. (#16935)
2680 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2685 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2688 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2692 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2696 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2697 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2698 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2699 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2700 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2701 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2705 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2708 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2709 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2711 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2712 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2713 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2714 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2715 a given package, or -i or -a.
2716 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2717 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2718 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2719 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2720 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2721 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2722 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2723 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2724 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2726 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2727 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2728 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2732 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2735 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2736 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2741 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2744 does not have a section.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2748 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2751 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2752 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2753 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2757 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Fixed typo #16215.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2763 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2766 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2767 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2768 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2769 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2770 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2775 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2778 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2779 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2780 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2785 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2791 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2797 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2800 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2801 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2802 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2803 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2804 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2805 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2809 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2815 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2818 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2822 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2825 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2826 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2827 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2831 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2834 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2838 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2844 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2847 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2851 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2854 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2858 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2864 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2867 postinst, postrm, etc.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2871 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2877 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2880 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2881 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2882 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2883 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2884 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2888 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2891 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2892 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2896 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2899 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2903 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2906 installing package files into.
2907 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2912 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2916 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2920 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2926 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2929 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2933 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2936 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2937 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2938 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2939 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2943 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2945 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2946 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2947 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2948 multiple binary packages.
2949 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2950 should rebuild them with this version.
2951 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2955 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2958 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2962 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2965 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2969 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2972 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2973 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2974 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2975 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2976 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2977 debian/README.debian.
2978 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2979 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2980 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2981 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2982 in a few situations.)
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2986 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2992 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2998 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3001 * Fixed several man pages.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3005 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3008 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3009 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3013 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3016 is ready for general use.
3017 * Added man pages for all commands.
3018 * Multiple binary package support.
3019 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3020 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3021 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3023 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3024 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3025 auto-installed as parameters.
3026 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3028 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3031 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3032 the package build directory it is to act on.
3033 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3034 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3035 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3039 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3041 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3042 ready to replace debstd.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400