1 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * The "Does this version number frighten you?" release.
4 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
5 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
6 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
7 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
8 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
9 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
10 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
11 but is mildly deprecated.
12 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
13 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
14 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
15 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
16 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
17 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
18 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
20 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
21 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
22 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
23 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
24 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
25 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
26 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
27 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
28 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
29 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
31 * Tonnes of changes here and there to mark v3 as done. I don't have a
32 v4 planned at this time. All the big changes are done.
33 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict; -w; lower-case
34 variable names). No perl-5.6isms though.
35 *** to make the version number a little more justified, turn on 'use
36 strict' throughout.. --- DONE up to dh_perl, not including it****
37 *** move man pages into programs as pod docs ***
38 *** add something to allow specification of the options each program takes,
39 make them ignore other options, and be able to display usage help ***
40 *** fix aj's bug, sigh ***
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
44 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
50 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
57 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
60 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
64 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
66 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
67 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
68 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
72 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
74 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
75 they were previously ignored.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
79 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
81 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
82 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
86 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
88 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
89 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
90 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
94 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
96 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
100 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
102 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
103 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
107 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
109 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
110 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
111 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
112 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
113 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
114 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
115 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
116 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
117 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
118 it is an obsolete program.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
122 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
124 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
128 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
132 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
134 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
138 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
140 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
142 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
144 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
148 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
154 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
156 * typo: Closes, #78567
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
160 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
166 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
172 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
174 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
175 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
176 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
177 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
178 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
179 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
183 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
186 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
191 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
194 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
195 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
196 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
197 backwards-compatability.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
201 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
203 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
204 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
205 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
206 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
207 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
208 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
209 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
211 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
212 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
213 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
215 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
217 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
218 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
219 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
220 should now be raised to severity important..
221 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
222 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
226 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
229 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
234 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Typo, Closes: #77441
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
240 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Completed the fix from the last version.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
246 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
252 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
254 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
259 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
262 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
263 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
264 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
265 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
269 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
275 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
278 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
279 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
280 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
281 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
282 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
283 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
288 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
291 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
295 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
301 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
304 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
309 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
312 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
313 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
314 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
315 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
319 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
323 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
326 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
329 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
330 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
333 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
335 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
336 the TODO entry about it.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
340 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
347 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
350 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
351 prevent that. Closes: #73052
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
355 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Typo, Closes: #72932
358 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
359 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
360 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
361 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
365 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
371 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
378 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
381 (this appears to be logal).
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
385 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
388 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
389 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
390 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
391 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
395 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
401 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
403 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
404 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
405 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
406 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
407 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
411 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
417 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
420 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
424 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
426 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
431 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
434 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
435 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
436 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
441 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
448 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
454 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
456 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
457 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
458 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
459 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
460 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
461 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
462 notice until v2 is complete.
463 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
464 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
465 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
466 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
467 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
468 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
470 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
471 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
472 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
473 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
477 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
483 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
490 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
493 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
497 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
504 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
507 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
508 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
509 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
510 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
515 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
518 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
519 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
520 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
525 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
528 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
529 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
533 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
536 just skip files that end in -\d+.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
540 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
543 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
547 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
554 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
556 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
557 depend on the build and install targets.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
561 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
564 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
568 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
575 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
581 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
587 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
590 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
591 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
592 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
593 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
594 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
595 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
597 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
598 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
599 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
600 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
601 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
602 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
603 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
607 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
613 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
619 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
622 right place. Closes: #55065
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
626 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
633 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Make all examples rules files executable.
636 * Copyright date updates.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
640 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
643 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
648 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
654 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
661 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
667 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
673 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
679 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
682 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
683 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
684 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
685 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
686 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
687 bits until all files have been registered.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
691 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_installmanpages:
694 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
695 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
696 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
697 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
698 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
699 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
700 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
701 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
702 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
703 otherwise change the result at all.
705 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
706 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
707 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
708 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
709 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
714 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
720 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
723 act on files that don't exist.
724 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
725 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
726 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
728 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
729 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
730 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
731 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
735 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
741 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
747 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
750 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
754 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
757 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
759 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
760 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
761 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
765 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
768 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
769 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
770 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
771 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
772 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
773 does not compress. Closes: #41733
774 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
776 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
778 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
782 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
789 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
795 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
804 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
814 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
820 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
823 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
824 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
825 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
826 I made some changes, though:
827 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
828 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
829 that is a clear violation of policy.
830 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
831 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
832 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
833 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
834 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
835 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
836 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
837 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
838 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
840 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
844 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
850 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
853 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
857 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
860 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
861 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
866 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
872 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
879 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
882 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
883 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
884 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
885 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
886 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
887 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
888 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
892 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
898 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
902 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
903 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
907 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
913 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
916 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
920 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
923 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
924 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
928 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
930 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
935 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
939 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
943 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
945 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
946 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
947 for the dependancies to be generated.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
951 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
954 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
958 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
961 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
962 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
963 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
968 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
971 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
972 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
976 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
982 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
988 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
991 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
995 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1001 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1004 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1005 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1006 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1007 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1008 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1009 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1010 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1011 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1012 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1013 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1014 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1015 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1019 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1022 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1023 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1025 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1026 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1027 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1028 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1029 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1030 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1032 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1033 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1037 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1040 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1044 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1051 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1054 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1059 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1062 for building debhelper.
1063 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1074 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1077 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1084 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1085 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1086 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1087 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1088 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1089 it's always available.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1096 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1097 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1098 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1102 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1105 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1106 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1110 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1116 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1119 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1129 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1132 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1133 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1134 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1138 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1141 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1146 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1149 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1150 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1152 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1153 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1157 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1163 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1169 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1172 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1176 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1179 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1180 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1182 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1189 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1190 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1191 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1195 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1198 things if CDPATH is set.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1202 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1208 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1211 seems to make sense for the transition.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1215 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1218 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1223 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1226 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1227 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1231 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1234 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1241 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1242 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1243 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1244 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1248 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1257 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1258 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1259 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1260 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1261 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1262 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1263 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1264 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1265 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1266 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1271 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1274 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1275 * README: mention doc/v2
1276 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1277 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1281 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1283 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1284 be using this script RSN.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1288 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1291 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1292 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1293 more than 1 init script.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1297 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1300 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1304 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Changed perl version detection.
1307 * Changed call to find.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1311 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1314 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1316 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1321 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Really include dh_installpam.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1327 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1330 * Wrote man page for same.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1334 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1337 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1338 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1343 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1350 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1353 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1354 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1355 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1356 x bit was being set!
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1360 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1363 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1364 well. (Closes: 38900)
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1368 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1371 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1372 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1376 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1382 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1389 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1395 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1398 help from Julian Gilbey.
1399 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1400 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1401 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1402 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1403 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1404 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1405 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1410 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1416 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1423 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1429 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1435 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1438 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1442 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1445 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1449 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1452 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1456 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1462 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1465 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1469 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1475 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1481 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1484 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1485 may be deleted. (#35845)
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1489 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Various man page enhancements.
1492 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1497 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1500 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1501 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1505 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1508 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1509 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1510 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1512 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1513 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1518 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1524 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * Another very minor typo fix.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1530 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Very minor typo fix.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1536 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1539 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1540 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1544 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1550 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1553 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1554 variables properly (#34850).
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1558 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1564 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1567 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1568 (automatically generated by build process).
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1572 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1574 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1578 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1581 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1582 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1584 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1588 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1591 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1595 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * README: minor typo fix.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1601 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1604 leave it at that. :-)
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1608 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1614 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1620 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1623 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1624 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1625 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1629 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1632 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1636 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1639 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1643 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1646 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1647 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1648 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1649 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1653 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1656 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1657 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1658 Craig Small for spotting this.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1662 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1665 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1666 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1670 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1676 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1679 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1683 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1685 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1686 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1687 working on the last version of debhelper.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1691 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1694 being made. (#23255)
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1698 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1704 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1707 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1711 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1714 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1715 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1716 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1717 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1721 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1724 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1725 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1726 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1727 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1729 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1730 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1732 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1737 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1743 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1749 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1752 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1753 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1754 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1755 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1756 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1757 suidregister actually supports it.
1758 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1759 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1763 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1770 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1773 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1774 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1775 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1776 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1777 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1778 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1779 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1783 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1785 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1786 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1790 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1793 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1794 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1795 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1796 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1800 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1803 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1805 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1806 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1807 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1808 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1809 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1810 effect, either. (#30118)
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1814 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1820 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1823 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1824 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1828 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1834 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1837 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1838 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1839 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1840 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1844 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1847 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1848 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1852 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1858 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1861 packages, painlessly.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1865 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1871 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1877 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1883 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * The perl conversion is complete.
1887 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1889 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1890 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1891 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1896 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1899 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1900 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1901 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1905 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1908 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1910 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1912 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1913 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1917 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1920 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1921 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1925 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1931 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1934 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1935 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1936 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1937 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1938 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1942 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1945 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1946 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1947 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1948 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1952 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1955 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1959 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1962 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1963 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1964 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1965 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1966 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1967 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1968 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1969 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1973 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1979 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1982 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1983 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1984 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1989 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1992 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1996 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1999 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2003 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2006 sections of shared libraries.
2007 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2008 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2009 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2010 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2011 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2012 things you don't want them to.
2013 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2014 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2018 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2021 shared libraries. (#26414)
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2025 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2027 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2028 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2029 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2030 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2034 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2038 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2040 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2041 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2042 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2043 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2044 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2048 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2051 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2055 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2058 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2059 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2064 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2067 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2071 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2074 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2075 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2076 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2077 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2078 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2080 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2081 remove debian/files properly.
2082 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2083 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2084 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2085 * Removed bogus menu file.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2089 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2092 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2096 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2099 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2100 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2101 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2102 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2103 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2104 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2108 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2111 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2112 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2113 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2114 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2118 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2125 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2128 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2129 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2131 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2132 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2133 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2134 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2135 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2136 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2140 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2143 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2144 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2145 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2146 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2147 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2148 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2149 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2150 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2151 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2152 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2153 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2154 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2155 passed any switches.
2156 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2160 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2163 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2164 at all for a long while.
2165 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2166 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2167 large chunks in the process.
2168 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2169 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2170 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2175 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2178 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2180 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2185 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2188 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2189 that don't always have the same files in them.
2190 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2191 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2192 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2196 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2200 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2201 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2202 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2203 updating 27 man pages.
2204 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2205 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2206 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2207 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2208 programs act on. (#25247)
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2212 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2216 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2217 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2218 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2219 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2220 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2221 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2226 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2233 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2240 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2243 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2247 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2253 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2256 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2257 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2258 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2259 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2260 package by accident.
2261 * Is version 1.0 next?
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2265 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2268 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2269 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2273 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2276 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2277 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2278 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2279 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2280 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2282 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2287 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2290 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2291 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2295 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2298 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2302 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2305 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2306 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2311 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2317 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2320 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2321 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2326 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2332 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2335 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2336 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2337 past week. Thanks, guys!
2339 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2340 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2341 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2342 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2343 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2344 would do in the same situation.
2345 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2346 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2348 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2350 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2351 permissions changed.
2352 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2353 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2354 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2355 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2356 files are treated identically.
2357 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2358 * Minor man page fixes.
2359 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2360 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2361 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2365 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2368 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2369 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2370 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2371 use -X multiple times, too.
2372 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2373 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2377 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2380 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2381 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2385 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2388 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2392 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2395 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2396 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2397 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2398 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2399 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2400 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2401 shape if you're starting a new package.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2405 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2408 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2412 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2415 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2416 because of missing symlinks.
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2420 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2426 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2429 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2430 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2431 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2432 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2433 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2435 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2436 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2440 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2442 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2443 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2444 to be changed after the fact :-)
2445 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2449 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2452 no version string after the -V.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2456 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2458 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2459 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2464 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2467 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2471 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2474 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2475 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2476 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2477 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2478 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2479 I always welcome corrections!
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2483 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2489 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2492 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2493 * Documented this new switch.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2497 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2500 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2501 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2502 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2503 no packages use the old behavior.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2507 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2510 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2511 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2515 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2518 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2522 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2528 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2531 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2535 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2538 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2539 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2540 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2544 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2550 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2553 into the source package by accident.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2557 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2560 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2561 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2562 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2563 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2564 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2565 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2570 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2574 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2575 inspired to implement some of it.
2576 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2580 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2583 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2587 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2590 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2591 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2595 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2598 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2599 have done.) (#17598)
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2603 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2609 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2615 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2618 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2622 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2625 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2626 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2630 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2633 argument processor in perl.
2634 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2635 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2636 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2637 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2641 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2644 type directories. (#16933)
2645 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2646 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2647 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2648 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2649 are supported. (#16935)
2650 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2655 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2658 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2662 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2666 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2667 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2668 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2669 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2670 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2671 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2675 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2678 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2679 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2681 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2682 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2683 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2684 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2685 a given package, or -i or -a.
2686 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2687 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2688 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2689 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2690 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2691 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2692 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2693 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2694 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2696 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2697 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2698 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2702 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2705 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2706 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2711 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2714 does not have a section.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2718 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2721 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2722 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2723 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2727 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Fixed typo #16215.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2733 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2736 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2737 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2738 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2739 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2740 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2745 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2748 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2749 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2750 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2755 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2761 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2767 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2770 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2771 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2772 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2773 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2774 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2775 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2779 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2785 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2788 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2792 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2795 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2796 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2797 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2801 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2804 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2808 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2814 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2817 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2821 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2824 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2828 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2834 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2837 postinst, postrm, etc.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2841 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2847 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2850 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2851 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2852 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2853 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2854 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2858 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2861 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2862 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2866 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2869 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2873 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2876 installing package files into.
2877 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2882 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2886 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2890 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2896 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2899 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2903 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2906 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2907 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2908 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2909 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2913 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2915 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2916 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2917 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2918 multiple binary packages.
2919 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2920 should rebuild them with this version.
2921 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2925 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2928 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2932 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2935 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2939 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2942 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2943 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2944 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2945 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2946 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2947 debian/README.debian.
2948 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2949 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2950 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2951 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2952 in a few situations.)
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2956 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2962 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2968 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2971 * Fixed several man pages.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2975 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2978 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2979 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2983 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2986 is ready for general use.
2987 * Added man pages for all commands.
2988 * Multiple binary package support.
2989 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2990 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2991 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2993 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2994 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2995 auto-installed as parameters.
2996 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2998 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3001 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3002 the package build directory it is to act on.
3003 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3004 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3005 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3009 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3011 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3012 ready to replace debstd.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400