1 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
7 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
9 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
10 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
11 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
12 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
13 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
14 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
18 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
21 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
26 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
29 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
30 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
31 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
32 backwards-compatability.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
36 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
38 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
39 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
40 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
41 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
42 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
43 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
44 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
46 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
47 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
48 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
50 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
52 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
53 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
54 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
55 should now be raised to severity important..
56 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
57 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
61 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
64 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
69 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Typo, Closes: #77441
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
75 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Completed the fix from the last version.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
81 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
87 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
89 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
94 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
97 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
98 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
99 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
100 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
104 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
110 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
113 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
114 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
115 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
116 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
117 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
118 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
123 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
126 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
130 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
136 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
139 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
144 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
147 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
148 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
149 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
150 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
154 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
158 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
161 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
164 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
165 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
168 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
170 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
171 the TODO entry about it.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
175 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
182 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
184 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
185 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
186 prevent that. Closes: #73052
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
190 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Typo, Closes: #72932
193 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
194 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
195 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
196 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
200 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
206 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
213 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
216 (this appears to be logal).
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
220 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
223 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
224 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
225 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
226 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
230 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
236 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
238 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
239 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
240 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
241 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
242 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
246 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
252 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
255 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
259 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
266 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
269 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
270 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
271 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
276 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
283 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
289 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
291 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
292 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
293 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
294 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
295 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
296 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
297 notice until v2 is complete.
298 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
299 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
300 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
301 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
302 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
303 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
305 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
306 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
307 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
308 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
312 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
318 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
325 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
328 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
332 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
339 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
342 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
343 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
344 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
345 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
350 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
353 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
354 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
355 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
360 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
363 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
364 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
368 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
371 just skip files that end in -\d+.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
375 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
378 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
382 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
389 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
391 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
392 depend on the build and install targets.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
396 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
399 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
403 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
410 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
416 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
422 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
425 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
426 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
427 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
428 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
429 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
430 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
432 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
433 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
434 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
435 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
436 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
437 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
438 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
442 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
448 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
454 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
457 right place. Closes: #55065
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
461 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
468 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Make all examples rules files executable.
471 * Copyright date updates.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
475 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
478 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
483 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
489 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
496 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
502 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
508 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
514 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
517 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
518 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
519 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
520 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
521 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
522 bits until all files have been registered.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
526 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_installmanpages:
529 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
530 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
531 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
532 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
533 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
534 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
535 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
536 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
537 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
538 otherwise change the result at all.
540 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
541 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
542 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
543 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
544 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
549 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
555 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
558 act on files that don't exist.
559 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
560 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
561 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
563 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
564 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
565 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
566 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
570 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
576 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
582 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
585 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
589 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
592 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
594 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
595 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
596 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
600 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
603 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
604 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
605 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
606 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
607 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
608 does not compress. Closes: #41733
609 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
611 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
613 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
617 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
624 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
630 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
636 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
639 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
655 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
658 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
659 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
660 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
661 I made some changes, though:
662 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
663 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
664 that is a clear violation of policy.
665 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
666 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
667 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
668 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
669 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
670 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
671 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
672 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
673 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
675 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
679 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
685 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
688 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
692 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
695 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
696 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
701 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
707 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
714 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
717 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
718 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
719 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
720 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
721 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
722 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
723 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
727 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
733 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
737 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
738 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
742 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
748 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
751 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
755 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
758 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
759 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
763 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
765 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
770 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
774 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
778 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
780 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
781 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
782 for the dependancies to be generated.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
789 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
793 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
796 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
797 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
798 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
803 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
806 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
807 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
811 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
817 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
826 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
830 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
836 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
838 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
839 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
840 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
841 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
842 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
843 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
844 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
845 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
846 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
847 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
848 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
849 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
850 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
854 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
856 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
857 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
858 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
860 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
861 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
862 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
863 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
864 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
865 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
867 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
868 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
872 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
875 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
879 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
886 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
888 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
889 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
894 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
897 for building debhelper.
898 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
902 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
909 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Fixed makefile commit target.
912 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
916 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
919 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
920 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
921 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
922 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
923 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
924 it's always available.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
928 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
931 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
932 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
933 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
937 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
940 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
941 modules. (Closes: #42171)
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
945 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
951 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
954 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
958 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
964 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
967 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
968 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
969 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
973 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
976 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
981 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
984 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
985 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
987 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
988 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
992 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
998 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1004 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1007 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1011 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1014 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1015 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1017 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1021 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1024 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1025 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1026 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1030 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1033 things if CDPATH is set.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1037 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1043 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1046 seems to make sense for the transition.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1050 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1053 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1058 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1061 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1062 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1066 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1069 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1073 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1076 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1077 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1078 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1079 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1083 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1089 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1092 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1093 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1094 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1095 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1096 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1097 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1098 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1099 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1100 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1101 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1106 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1109 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1110 * README: mention doc/v2
1111 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1112 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1116 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1118 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1119 be using this script RSN.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1123 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1126 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1127 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1128 more than 1 init script.
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1132 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1135 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1139 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Changed perl version detection.
1142 * Changed call to find.
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1146 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1149 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1151 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1156 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Really include dh_installpam.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1162 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1165 * Wrote man page for same.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1169 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1172 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1173 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1178 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1185 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1188 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1189 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1190 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1191 x bit was being set!
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1195 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1198 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1199 well. (Closes: 38900)
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1203 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1206 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1207 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1211 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1217 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1224 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1230 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1233 help from Julian Gilbey.
1234 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1235 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1236 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1237 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1238 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1239 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1240 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1245 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1251 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1258 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1264 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1270 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1273 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1277 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1280 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1284 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1287 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1291 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1297 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1300 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1304 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1310 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1316 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1319 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1320 may be deleted. (#35845)
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1324 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Various man page enhancements.
1327 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1332 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1335 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1336 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1340 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1343 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1344 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1345 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1347 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1348 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1353 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1359 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Another very minor typo fix.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1365 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Very minor typo fix.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1371 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1374 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1375 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1379 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1385 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1388 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1389 variables properly (#34850).
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1393 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1399 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1402 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1403 (automatically generated by build process).
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1407 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1409 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1413 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1416 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1417 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1419 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1423 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1426 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1430 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * README: minor typo fix.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1436 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1439 leave it at that. :-)
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1443 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1449 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1455 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1458 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1459 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1460 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1464 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1467 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1471 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1474 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1478 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1481 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1482 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1483 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1484 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1488 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1491 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1492 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1493 Craig Small for spotting this.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1497 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1500 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1501 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1505 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1511 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1514 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1518 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1520 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1521 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1522 working on the last version of debhelper.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1526 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1529 being made. (#23255)
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1533 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1539 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1542 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1546 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1549 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1550 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1551 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1552 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1556 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1559 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1560 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1561 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1562 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1564 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1565 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1567 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1572 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1578 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1584 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1587 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1588 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1589 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1590 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1591 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1592 suidregister actually supports it.
1593 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1594 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1598 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1605 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1608 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1609 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1610 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1611 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1612 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1613 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1614 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1618 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1620 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1621 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1625 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1628 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1629 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1630 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1631 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1635 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1638 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1640 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1641 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1642 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1643 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1644 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1645 effect, either. (#30118)
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1649 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1655 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1658 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1659 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1663 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1669 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1672 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1673 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1674 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1675 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1679 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1682 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1683 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1687 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1693 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1696 packages, painlessly.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1700 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1712 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1718 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * The perl conversion is complete.
1722 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1724 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1725 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1726 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1731 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1734 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1735 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1736 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1740 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1743 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1745 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1747 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1748 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1752 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1755 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1756 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1760 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1766 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1769 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1770 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1771 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1772 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1773 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1777 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1780 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1781 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1782 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1783 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1787 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1790 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1794 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1797 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1798 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1799 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1800 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1801 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1802 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1803 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1804 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1808 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1814 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1817 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1818 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1819 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1824 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1827 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1831 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1834 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1838 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1841 sections of shared libraries.
1842 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1843 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1844 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1845 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1846 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1847 things you don't want them to.
1848 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1849 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1853 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1856 shared libraries. (#26414)
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1860 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1862 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1863 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1864 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1865 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1869 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1873 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1875 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1876 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1877 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1878 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1879 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1883 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1886 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1890 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1893 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1894 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1899 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1902 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1906 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1909 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1910 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1911 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1912 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1913 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1915 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1916 remove debian/files properly.
1917 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1918 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1919 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1920 * Removed bogus menu file.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1924 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1927 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1931 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1934 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1935 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1936 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1937 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1938 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1939 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1943 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1946 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1947 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1948 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1949 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1953 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1960 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1963 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1964 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1966 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1967 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1968 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1969 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1970 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1971 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1975 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1978 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1979 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1980 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1981 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1982 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1983 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1984 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1985 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1986 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1987 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1988 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1989 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1990 passed any switches.
1991 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1995 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1998 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1999 at all for a long while.
2000 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2001 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2002 large chunks in the process.
2003 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2004 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2005 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2010 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2013 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2015 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2020 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2023 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2024 that don't always have the same files in them.
2025 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2026 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2027 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2031 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2035 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2036 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2037 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2038 updating 27 man pages.
2039 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2040 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2041 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2042 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2043 programs act on. (#25247)
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2047 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2051 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2052 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2053 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2054 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2055 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2056 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2061 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2068 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2075 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2078 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2082 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2088 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2091 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2092 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2093 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2094 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2095 package by accident.
2096 * Is version 1.0 next?
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2100 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2103 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2104 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2108 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2111 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2112 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2113 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2114 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2115 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2117 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2122 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2125 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2126 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2130 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2133 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2137 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2140 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2141 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2146 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2152 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2155 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2156 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2161 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2167 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2170 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2171 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2172 past week. Thanks, guys!
2174 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2175 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2176 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2177 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2178 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2179 would do in the same situation.
2180 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2181 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2183 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2185 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2186 permissions changed.
2187 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2188 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2189 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2190 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2191 files are treated identically.
2192 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2193 * Minor man page fixes.
2194 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2195 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2196 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2200 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2203 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2204 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2205 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2206 use -X multiple times, too.
2207 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2208 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2212 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2215 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2216 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2220 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2223 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2227 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2230 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2231 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2232 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2233 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2234 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2235 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2236 shape if you're starting a new package.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2240 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2243 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2247 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2250 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2251 because of missing symlinks.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2255 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2261 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2264 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2265 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2266 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2267 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2268 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2270 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2271 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2275 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2277 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2278 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2279 to be changed after the fact :-)
2280 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2284 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2287 no version string after the -V.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2291 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2293 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2294 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2299 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2302 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2306 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2309 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2310 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2311 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2312 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2313 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2314 I always welcome corrections!
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2318 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2324 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2327 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2328 * Documented this new switch.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2332 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2335 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2336 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2337 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2338 no packages use the old behavior.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2342 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2345 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2346 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2350 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2353 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2357 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2363 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2366 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2370 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2373 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2374 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2375 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2379 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2385 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2388 into the source package by accident.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2392 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2395 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2396 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2397 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2398 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2399 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2400 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2405 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2409 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2410 inspired to implement some of it.
2411 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2415 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2418 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2422 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2425 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2426 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2430 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2433 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2434 have done.) (#17598)
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2438 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2444 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2450 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2453 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2457 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2460 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2461 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2465 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2468 argument processor in perl.
2469 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2470 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2471 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2472 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2476 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2479 type directories. (#16933)
2480 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2481 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2482 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2483 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2484 are supported. (#16935)
2485 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2490 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2493 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2497 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2501 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2502 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2503 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2504 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2505 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2506 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2510 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2513 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2514 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2516 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2517 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2518 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2519 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2520 a given package, or -i or -a.
2521 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2522 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2523 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2524 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2525 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2526 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2527 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2528 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2529 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2531 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2532 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2533 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2537 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2540 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2541 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2546 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2549 does not have a section.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2553 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2556 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2557 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2558 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2562 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Fixed typo #16215.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2568 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2571 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2572 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2573 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2574 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2575 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2580 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2583 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2584 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2585 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2590 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2596 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2602 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2605 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2606 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2607 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2608 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2609 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2610 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2614 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2620 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2623 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2627 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2630 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2631 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2632 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2636 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2639 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2643 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2649 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2652 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2656 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2659 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2663 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2669 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2672 postinst, postrm, etc.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2676 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2682 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2685 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2686 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2687 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2688 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2689 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2693 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2696 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2697 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2701 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2704 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2708 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2711 installing package files into.
2712 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2717 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2721 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2725 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2731 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2734 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2738 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2741 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2742 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2743 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2744 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2748 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2750 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2751 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2752 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2753 multiple binary packages.
2754 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2755 should rebuild them with this version.
2756 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2760 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2763 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2767 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2770 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2774 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2777 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2778 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2779 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2780 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2781 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2782 debian/README.debian.
2783 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2784 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2785 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2786 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2787 in a few situations.)
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2791 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2797 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2803 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2806 * Fixed several man pages.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2810 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2813 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2814 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2818 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2821 is ready for general use.
2822 * Added man pages for all commands.
2823 * Multiple binary package support.
2824 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2825 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2826 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2828 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2829 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2830 auto-installed as parameters.
2831 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2833 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2836 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2837 the package build directory it is to act on.
2838 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2839 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2840 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2844 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2846 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2847 ready to replace debstd.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400