1 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
7 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
10 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
11 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
12 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
13 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
14 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
15 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
20 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
23 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
27 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
33 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
36 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
41 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
44 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
45 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
46 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
47 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
51 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
55 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
58 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
61 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
62 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
65 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
67 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
68 the TODO entry about it.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
72 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
79 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
82 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
83 prevent that. Closes: #73052
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
87 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Typo, Closes: #72932
90 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
91 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
92 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
93 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
97 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
103 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
110 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
113 (this appears to be logal).
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
117 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
120 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
121 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
122 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
123 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
127 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
133 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
135 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
136 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
137 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
138 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
139 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
143 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
149 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
152 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
156 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
163 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
166 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
167 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
168 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
173 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
180 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
186 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
188 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
189 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
190 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
191 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
192 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
193 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
194 notice until v2 is complete.
195 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
196 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
197 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
198 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
199 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
200 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
202 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
203 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
204 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
205 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
209 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
222 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
225 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
229 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
236 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
238 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
239 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
240 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
241 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
242 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
247 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
250 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
251 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
252 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
257 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
260 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
261 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
265 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
268 just skip files that end in -\d+.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
272 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
275 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
279 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
286 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
288 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
289 depend on the build and install targets.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
293 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
296 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
300 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
307 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
313 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
319 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
322 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
323 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
324 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
325 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
326 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
327 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
329 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
330 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
331 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
332 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
333 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
334 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
335 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
339 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
345 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
351 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
354 right place. Closes: #55065
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
358 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
365 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Make all examples rules files executable.
368 * Copyright date updates.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
372 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
375 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
380 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
386 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
393 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
399 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
405 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
411 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
414 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
415 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
416 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
417 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
418 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
419 bits until all files have been registered.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
423 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_installmanpages:
426 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
427 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
428 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
429 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
430 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
431 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
432 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
433 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
434 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
435 otherwise change the result at all.
437 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
438 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
439 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
440 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
441 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
446 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
452 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
455 act on files that don't exist.
456 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
457 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
458 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
460 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
461 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
462 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
463 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
467 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
473 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
479 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
482 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
486 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
489 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
491 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
492 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
493 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
497 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
500 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
501 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
502 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
503 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
504 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
505 does not compress. Closes: #41733
506 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
508 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
510 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
514 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
521 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
527 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
533 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
536 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
540 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
546 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
552 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
555 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
556 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
557 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
558 I made some changes, though:
559 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
560 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
561 that is a clear violation of policy.
562 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
563 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
564 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
565 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
566 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
567 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
568 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
569 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
570 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
572 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
576 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
582 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
585 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
589 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
592 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
593 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
598 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
604 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
611 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
614 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
615 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
616 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
617 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
618 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
619 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
620 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
624 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
630 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
634 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
635 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
639 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
645 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
648 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
652 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
655 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
656 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
660 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
662 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
667 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
671 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
675 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
677 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
678 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
679 for the dependancies to be generated.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
683 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
686 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
690 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
693 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
694 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
695 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
700 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
703 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
704 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
708 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
714 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
720 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
723 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
727 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
733 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
735 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
736 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
737 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
738 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
739 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
740 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
741 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
742 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
743 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
744 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
745 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
746 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
747 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
751 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
753 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
754 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
755 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
757 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
758 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
759 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
760 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
761 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
762 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
764 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
765 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
769 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
772 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
776 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
783 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
785 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
786 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
791 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
794 for building debhelper.
795 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
806 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Fixed makefile commit target.
809 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
813 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
816 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
817 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
818 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
819 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
820 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
821 it's always available.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
825 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
828 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
829 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
830 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
834 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
837 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
838 modules. (Closes: #42171)
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
842 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
848 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
851 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
855 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
861 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
864 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
865 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
866 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
870 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
873 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
878 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
881 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
882 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
884 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
885 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
889 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
895 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
901 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
903 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
904 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
908 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
911 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
912 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
914 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
918 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
921 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
922 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
923 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
927 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
930 things if CDPATH is set.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
934 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
940 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
943 seems to make sense for the transition.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
947 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
950 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
955 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
958 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
959 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
963 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
966 that version. (Closes: #40589)
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
970 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
972 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
973 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
974 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
975 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
976 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
980 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
986 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
989 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
990 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
991 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
992 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
993 * debhelper.1: documented this.
994 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
995 current compatability level is equal to that number.
996 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
997 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
998 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1003 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1006 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1007 * README: mention doc/v2
1008 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1009 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1013 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1015 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1016 be using this script RSN.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1020 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1023 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1024 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1025 more than 1 init script.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1029 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1032 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1036 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Changed perl version detection.
1039 * Changed call to find.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1043 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1046 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1048 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1053 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Really include dh_installpam.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1059 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1062 * Wrote man page for same.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1066 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1069 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1070 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1075 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1082 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1085 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1086 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1087 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1088 x bit was being set!
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1092 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1095 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1096 well. (Closes: 38900)
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1100 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1103 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1104 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1108 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1114 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1121 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1127 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1130 help from Julian Gilbey.
1131 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1132 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1133 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1134 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1135 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1136 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1137 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1142 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1148 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1155 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1161 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1167 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1170 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1174 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1177 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1181 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1184 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1188 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1194 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1197 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1201 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1207 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1213 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1216 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1217 may be deleted. (#35845)
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1221 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Various man page enhancements.
1224 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1229 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1232 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1233 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1237 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1240 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1241 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1242 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1244 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1245 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1250 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1256 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Another very minor typo fix.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1262 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Very minor typo fix.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1268 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1271 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1272 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1276 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1282 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1285 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1286 variables properly (#34850).
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1290 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1296 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1299 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1300 (automatically generated by build process).
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1304 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1306 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1310 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1313 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1314 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1316 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1320 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1323 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1327 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * README: minor typo fix.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1333 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1336 leave it at that. :-)
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1340 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1346 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1352 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1355 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1356 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1357 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1361 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1364 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1368 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1371 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1375 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1378 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1379 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1380 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1381 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1385 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1388 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1389 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1390 Craig Small for spotting this.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1394 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1397 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1398 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1402 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1408 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1411 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1415 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1417 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1418 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1419 working on the last version of debhelper.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1423 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1426 being made. (#23255)
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1430 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1436 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1439 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1443 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1446 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1447 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1448 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1449 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1453 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1456 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1457 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1458 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1459 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1461 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1462 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1464 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1469 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1475 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1481 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1484 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1485 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1486 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1487 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1488 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1489 suidregister actually supports it.
1490 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1491 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1495 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1502 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1505 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1506 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1507 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1508 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1509 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1510 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1511 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1515 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1517 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1518 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1522 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1525 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1526 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1527 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1528 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1532 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1535 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1537 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1538 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1539 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1540 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1541 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1542 effect, either. (#30118)
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1546 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1552 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1555 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1556 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1560 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1566 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1569 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1570 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1571 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1572 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1576 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1579 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1580 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1584 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1590 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1593 packages, painlessly.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1597 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1603 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1609 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1615 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * The perl conversion is complete.
1619 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1621 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1622 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1623 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1628 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1631 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1632 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1633 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1637 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1640 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1642 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1644 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1645 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1649 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1652 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1653 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1657 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1663 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1666 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1667 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1668 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1669 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1670 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1674 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1677 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1678 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1679 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1680 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1684 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1687 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1691 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1694 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1695 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1696 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1697 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1698 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1699 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1700 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1701 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1705 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1711 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1714 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1715 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1716 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1721 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1724 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1728 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1731 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1735 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1738 sections of shared libraries.
1739 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1740 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1741 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1742 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1743 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1744 things you don't want them to.
1745 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1746 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1750 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1753 shared libraries. (#26414)
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1757 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1759 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1760 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1761 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1762 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1766 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1770 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1772 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1773 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1774 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1775 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1776 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1780 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1783 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1787 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1790 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1791 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1796 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1799 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1803 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1806 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1807 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1808 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1809 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1810 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1812 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1813 remove debian/files properly.
1814 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1815 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1816 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1817 * Removed bogus menu file.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1821 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1824 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1828 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1831 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1832 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1833 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1834 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1835 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1836 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1840 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1843 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1844 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1845 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1846 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1850 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1857 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1860 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1861 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1863 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1864 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1865 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1866 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1867 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1868 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1872 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1875 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1876 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1877 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1878 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1879 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1880 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1881 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1882 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1883 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1884 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1885 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1886 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1887 passed any switches.
1888 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1892 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1895 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1896 at all for a long while.
1897 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1898 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1899 large chunks in the process.
1900 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1901 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1902 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1907 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1910 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1912 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1917 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1920 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1921 that don't always have the same files in them.
1922 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1923 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1924 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1928 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1932 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1933 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1934 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1935 updating 27 man pages.
1936 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1937 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1938 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1939 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1940 programs act on. (#25247)
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1944 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1948 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1949 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1950 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1951 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1952 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1953 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1958 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1965 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1972 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1975 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1979 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1985 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1988 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1989 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1990 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1991 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1992 package by accident.
1993 * Is version 1.0 next?
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1997 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2000 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2001 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2005 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2008 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2009 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2010 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2011 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2012 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2014 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2019 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2022 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2023 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2027 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2030 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2034 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2037 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2038 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2043 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2049 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2052 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2053 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2058 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2064 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2067 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2068 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2069 past week. Thanks, guys!
2071 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2072 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2073 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2074 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2075 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2076 would do in the same situation.
2077 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2078 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2080 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2082 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2083 permissions changed.
2084 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2085 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2086 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2087 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2088 files are treated identically.
2089 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2090 * Minor man page fixes.
2091 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2092 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2093 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2097 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2100 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2101 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2102 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2103 use -X multiple times, too.
2104 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2105 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2109 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2112 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2113 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2117 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2120 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2124 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2127 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2128 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2129 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2130 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2131 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2132 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2133 shape if you're starting a new package.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2137 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2140 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2144 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2147 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2148 because of missing symlinks.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2152 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2158 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2161 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2162 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2163 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2164 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2165 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2167 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2168 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2172 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2174 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2175 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2176 to be changed after the fact :-)
2177 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2181 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2184 no version string after the -V.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2188 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2190 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2191 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2196 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2199 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2203 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2206 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2207 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2208 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2209 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2210 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2211 I always welcome corrections!
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2215 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2221 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2224 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2225 * Documented this new switch.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2229 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2232 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2233 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2234 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2235 no packages use the old behavior.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2239 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2242 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2243 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2247 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2250 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2254 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2260 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2263 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2267 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2270 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2271 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2272 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2276 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2282 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2285 into the source package by accident.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2289 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2292 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2293 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2294 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2295 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2296 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2297 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2302 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2306 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2307 inspired to implement some of it.
2308 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2312 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2315 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2319 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2322 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2323 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2327 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2330 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2331 have done.) (#17598)
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2335 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2341 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2347 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2350 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2354 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2357 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2358 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2362 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2365 argument processor in perl.
2366 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2367 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2368 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2369 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2373 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2376 type directories. (#16933)
2377 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2378 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2379 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2380 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2381 are supported. (#16935)
2382 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2387 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2390 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2394 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2398 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2399 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2400 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2401 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2402 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2403 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2407 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2410 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2411 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2413 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2414 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2415 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2416 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2417 a given package, or -i or -a.
2418 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2419 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2420 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2421 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2422 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2423 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2424 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2425 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2426 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2428 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2429 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2430 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2434 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2437 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2438 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2443 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2446 does not have a section.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2450 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2453 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2454 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2455 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2459 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Fixed typo #16215.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2465 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2468 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2469 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2470 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2471 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2472 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2477 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2480 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2481 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2482 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2487 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2493 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2499 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2502 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2503 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2504 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2505 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2506 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2507 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2511 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2517 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2520 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2524 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2527 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2528 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2529 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2533 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2536 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2540 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2546 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2549 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2553 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2556 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2560 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2566 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2569 postinst, postrm, etc.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2573 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2579 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2582 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2583 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2584 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2585 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2586 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2590 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2593 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2594 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2598 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2601 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2605 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2608 installing package files into.
2609 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2614 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2618 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2622 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2628 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2631 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2635 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2638 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2639 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2640 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2641 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2645 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2647 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2648 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2649 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2650 multiple binary packages.
2651 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2652 should rebuild them with this version.
2653 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2657 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2660 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2664 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2667 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2671 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2674 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2675 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2676 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2677 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2678 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2679 debian/README.debian.
2680 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2681 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2682 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2683 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2684 in a few situations.)
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2688 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2694 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2700 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2703 * Fixed several man pages.
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2707 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2710 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2711 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2715 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2718 is ready for general use.
2719 * Added man pages for all commands.
2720 * Multiple binary package support.
2721 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2722 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2723 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2725 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2726 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2727 auto-installed as parameters.
2728 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2730 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2733 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2734 the package build directory it is to act on.
2735 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2736 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2737 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2741 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2743 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2744 ready to replace debstd.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400