1 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
7 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
13 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
19 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
22 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
26 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
29 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
30 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
31 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
32 followed. Closes: #85483
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
36 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
38 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
39 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
40 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
44 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
47 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
48 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
49 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
50 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
51 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
52 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
53 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
54 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
55 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
56 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
57 Closes: #88464, #77743
58 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
59 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
60 us to deal with that gracefully.
61 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
63 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
64 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
65 a while, Closes: #51225
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
69 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
75 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
78 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
82 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
86 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
91 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
94 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
95 don't make packlist files.
96 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
97 debhelper coding standards.
98 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
99 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
103 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
106 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
110 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
113 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
114 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
115 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
116 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
117 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
118 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
119 but is mildly deprecated.
120 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
121 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
122 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
123 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
124 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
125 switching to statoverrides..
126 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
127 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
128 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
129 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
130 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
131 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
133 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
134 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
135 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
136 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
137 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
138 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
139 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
140 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
141 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
143 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
144 variable names, pod man pages).
145 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
146 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
147 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
148 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
149 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
150 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
151 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
155 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
161 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
168 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
171 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
175 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
177 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
178 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
179 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
183 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
185 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
186 they were previously ignored.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
190 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
192 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
193 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
197 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
199 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
200 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
201 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
205 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
207 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
211 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
213 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
214 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
218 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
220 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
221 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
222 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
223 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
224 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
225 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
226 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
227 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
228 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
229 it is an obsolete program.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
233 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
235 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
239 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
243 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
245 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
249 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
251 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
253 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
255 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
259 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
265 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
267 * typo: Closes, #78567
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
271 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
277 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
283 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
285 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
286 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
287 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
288 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
289 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
290 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
294 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
297 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
302 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
305 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
306 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
307 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
308 backwards-compatability.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
312 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
314 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
315 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
316 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
317 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
318 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
319 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
320 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
322 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
323 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
324 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
326 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
328 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
329 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
330 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
331 should now be raised to severity important..
332 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
333 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
337 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
340 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
345 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Typo, Closes: #77441
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
351 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Completed the fix from the last version.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
357 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
363 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
365 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
370 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
373 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
374 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
375 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
376 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
380 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
386 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
389 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
390 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
391 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
392 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
393 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
394 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
399 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
402 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
406 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
412 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
415 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
420 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
423 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
424 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
425 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
426 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
430 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
434 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
437 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
440 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
441 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
444 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
446 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
447 the TODO entry about it.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
451 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
458 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
461 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
462 prevent that. Closes: #73052
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
466 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Typo, Closes: #72932
469 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
470 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
471 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
472 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
476 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
482 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
489 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
492 (this appears to be logal).
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
496 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
499 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
500 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
501 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
502 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
506 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
512 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
514 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
515 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
516 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
517 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
518 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
522 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
528 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
531 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
535 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
542 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
545 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
546 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
547 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
552 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
559 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
565 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
567 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
568 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
569 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
570 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
571 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
572 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
573 notice until v2 is complete.
574 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
575 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
576 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
577 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
578 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
579 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
581 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
582 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
583 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
584 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
588 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
594 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
596 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
601 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
604 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
608 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
615 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
618 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
619 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
620 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
621 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
626 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
629 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
630 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
631 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
636 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
639 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
640 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
644 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
647 just skip files that end in -\d+.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
651 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
654 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
658 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
665 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
667 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
668 depend on the build and install targets.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
672 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
675 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
679 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
686 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
692 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
698 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
701 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
702 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
703 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
704 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
705 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
706 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
708 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
709 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
710 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
711 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
712 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
713 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
714 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
718 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
724 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
730 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
733 right place. Closes: #55065
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
737 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
744 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Make all examples rules files executable.
747 * Copyright date updates.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
751 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
754 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
759 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
765 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
772 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
778 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
784 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
790 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
793 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
794 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
795 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
796 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
797 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
798 bits until all files have been registered.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
802 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_installmanpages:
805 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
806 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
807 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
808 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
809 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
810 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
811 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
812 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
813 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
814 otherwise change the result at all.
816 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
817 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
818 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
819 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
820 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
825 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
831 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
834 act on files that don't exist.
835 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
836 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
837 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
839 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
840 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
841 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
842 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
846 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
852 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
858 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
861 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
865 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
868 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
870 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
871 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
872 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
876 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
879 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
880 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
881 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
882 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
883 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
884 does not compress. Closes: #41733
885 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
887 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
889 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
893 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
900 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
906 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
912 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
915 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
919 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
925 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
931 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
934 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
935 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
936 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
937 I made some changes, though:
938 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
939 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
940 that is a clear violation of policy.
941 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
942 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
943 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
944 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
945 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
946 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
947 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
948 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
949 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
951 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
955 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
961 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
964 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
968 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
971 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
972 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
983 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
990 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
993 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
994 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
995 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
996 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
997 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
998 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
999 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1003 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1009 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1013 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1014 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1024 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1027 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1034 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1035 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1039 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1041 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1046 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1050 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1057 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1058 for the dependancies to be generated.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1062 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1065 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1069 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1072 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1073 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1074 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1079 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1082 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1083 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1087 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1099 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1102 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1106 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1112 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1115 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1116 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1117 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1118 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1119 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1120 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1121 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1122 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1123 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1124 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1125 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1126 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1133 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1134 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1136 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1137 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1138 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1139 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1140 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1141 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1143 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1144 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1148 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1151 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1155 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1162 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1165 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1170 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1173 for building debhelper.
1174 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1178 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1185 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1188 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1192 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1195 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1196 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1197 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1198 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1199 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1200 it's always available.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1204 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1207 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1208 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1209 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1213 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1216 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1217 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1221 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1227 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1230 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1234 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1240 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1243 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1244 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1245 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1249 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1252 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1257 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1260 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1261 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1263 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1264 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1268 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1274 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1280 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1283 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1287 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1290 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1291 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1293 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1297 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1300 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1301 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1302 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1306 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1309 things if CDPATH is set.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1319 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1322 seems to make sense for the transition.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1326 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1329 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1334 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1337 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1338 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1342 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1345 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1349 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1352 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1353 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1354 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1355 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1368 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1369 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1370 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1371 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1372 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1373 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1374 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1375 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1376 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1377 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1382 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1385 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1386 * README: mention doc/v2
1387 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1388 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1392 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1394 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1395 be using this script RSN.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1399 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1402 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1403 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1404 more than 1 init script.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1408 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1411 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1415 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Changed perl version detection.
1418 * Changed call to find.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1422 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1425 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1427 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1432 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Really include dh_installpam.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1438 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1441 * Wrote man page for same.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1445 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1448 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1449 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1454 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1461 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1464 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1465 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1466 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1467 x bit was being set!
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1471 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1474 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1475 well. (Closes: 38900)
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1479 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1482 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1483 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1487 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1493 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1500 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1506 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1509 help from Julian Gilbey.
1510 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1511 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1512 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1513 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1514 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1515 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1516 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1521 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1527 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1534 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1540 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1546 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1549 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1553 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1556 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1560 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1563 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1567 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1576 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1580 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1586 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1592 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1595 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1596 may be deleted. (#35845)
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1600 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Various man page enhancements.
1603 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1608 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1611 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1612 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1616 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1619 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1620 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1621 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1623 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1624 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1629 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1635 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Another very minor typo fix.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1641 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Very minor typo fix.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1647 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1650 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1651 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1655 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1661 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1664 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1665 variables properly (#34850).
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1669 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1675 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1678 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1679 (automatically generated by build process).
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1683 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1685 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1689 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1692 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1693 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1695 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1699 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1702 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * README: minor typo fix.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1712 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1715 leave it at that. :-)
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1719 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1725 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1731 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1734 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1735 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1736 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1740 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1743 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1747 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1750 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1754 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1757 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1758 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1759 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1760 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1764 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1767 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1768 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1769 Craig Small for spotting this.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1773 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1776 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1777 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1781 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1787 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1790 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1794 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1796 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1797 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1798 working on the last version of debhelper.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1802 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1805 being made. (#23255)
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1815 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1818 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1822 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1825 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1826 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1827 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1828 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1832 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1835 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1836 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1837 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1838 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1840 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1841 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1843 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1848 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1854 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1860 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1863 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1864 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1865 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1866 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1867 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1868 suidregister actually supports it.
1869 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1870 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1874 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1881 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1884 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1885 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1886 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1887 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1888 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1889 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1890 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1894 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1896 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1897 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1901 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1904 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1905 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1906 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1907 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1911 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1914 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1916 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1917 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1918 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1919 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1920 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1921 effect, either. (#30118)
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1925 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1931 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1934 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1935 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1939 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1945 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1948 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1949 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1950 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1951 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1955 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1958 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1959 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1963 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1969 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1972 packages, painlessly.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1976 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1982 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1988 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1994 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * The perl conversion is complete.
1998 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2000 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2001 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2002 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2007 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2010 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2011 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2012 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2016 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2019 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2021 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2023 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2024 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2028 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2031 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2032 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2036 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2042 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2045 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2046 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2047 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2048 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2049 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2053 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2056 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2057 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2058 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2059 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2063 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2066 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2070 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2073 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2074 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2075 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2076 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2077 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2078 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2079 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2080 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2084 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2090 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2093 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2094 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2095 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2100 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2103 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2107 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2110 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2114 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2117 sections of shared libraries.
2118 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2119 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2120 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2121 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2122 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2123 things you don't want them to.
2124 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2125 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2129 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2132 shared libraries. (#26414)
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2136 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2138 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2139 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2140 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2141 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2145 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2149 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2151 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2152 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2153 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2154 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2155 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2159 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2162 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2166 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2169 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2170 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2175 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2178 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2182 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2185 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2186 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2187 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2188 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2189 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2191 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2192 remove debian/files properly.
2193 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2194 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2195 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2196 * Removed bogus menu file.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2200 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2203 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2207 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2210 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2211 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2212 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2213 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2214 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2215 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2219 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2222 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2223 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2224 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2225 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2236 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2239 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2240 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2242 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2243 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2244 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2245 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2246 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2247 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2251 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2254 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2255 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2256 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2257 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2258 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2259 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2260 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2261 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2262 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2263 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2264 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2265 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2266 passed any switches.
2267 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2271 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2274 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2275 at all for a long while.
2276 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2277 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2278 large chunks in the process.
2279 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2280 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2281 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2286 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2289 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2291 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2296 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2299 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2300 that don't always have the same files in them.
2301 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2302 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2303 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2307 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2311 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2312 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2313 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2314 updating 27 man pages.
2315 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2316 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2317 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2318 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2319 programs act on. (#25247)
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2323 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2327 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2328 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2329 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2330 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2331 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2332 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2337 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2344 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2351 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2354 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2358 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2364 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2367 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2368 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2369 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2370 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2371 package by accident.
2372 * Is version 1.0 next?
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2376 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2379 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2380 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2384 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2387 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2388 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2389 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2390 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2391 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2393 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2398 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2401 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2402 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2406 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2409 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2413 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2416 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2417 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2422 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2428 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2431 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2432 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2437 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2443 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2446 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2447 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2448 past week. Thanks, guys!
2450 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2451 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2452 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2453 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2454 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2455 would do in the same situation.
2456 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2457 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2459 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2461 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2462 permissions changed.
2463 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2464 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2465 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2466 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2467 files are treated identically.
2468 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2469 * Minor man page fixes.
2470 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2471 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2472 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2476 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2479 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2480 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2481 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2482 use -X multiple times, too.
2483 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2484 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2488 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2491 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2492 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2496 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2499 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2503 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2506 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2507 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2508 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2509 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2510 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2511 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2512 shape if you're starting a new package.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2516 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2519 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2523 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2526 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2527 because of missing symlinks.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2531 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2537 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2540 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2541 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2542 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2543 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2544 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2546 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2547 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2551 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2553 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2554 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2555 to be changed after the fact :-)
2556 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2560 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2563 no version string after the -V.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2567 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2569 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2570 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2575 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2578 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2582 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2585 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2586 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2587 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2588 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2589 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2590 I always welcome corrections!
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2594 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2600 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2603 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2604 * Documented this new switch.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2608 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2611 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2612 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2613 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2614 no packages use the old behavior.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2618 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2621 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2622 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2626 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2629 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2633 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2639 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2642 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2646 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2649 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2650 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2651 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2655 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2661 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2664 into the source package by accident.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2668 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2671 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2672 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2673 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2674 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2675 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2676 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2681 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2685 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2686 inspired to implement some of it.
2687 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2691 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2694 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2698 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2701 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2702 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2706 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2709 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2710 have done.) (#17598)
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2714 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2720 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2726 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2729 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2733 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2736 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2737 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2741 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2744 argument processor in perl.
2745 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2746 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2747 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2748 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2752 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2755 type directories. (#16933)
2756 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2757 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2758 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2759 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2760 are supported. (#16935)
2761 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2766 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2769 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2773 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2777 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2778 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2779 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2780 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2781 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2782 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2786 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2789 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2790 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2792 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2793 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2794 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2795 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2796 a given package, or -i or -a.
2797 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2798 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2799 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2800 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2801 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2802 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2803 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2804 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2805 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2807 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2808 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2809 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2813 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2816 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2817 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2822 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2825 does not have a section.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2829 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2832 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2833 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2834 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2838 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Fixed typo #16215.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2844 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2847 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2848 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2849 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2850 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2851 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2856 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2859 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2860 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2861 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2866 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2872 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2878 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2881 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2882 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2883 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2884 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2885 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2886 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2890 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2896 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2899 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2903 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2906 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2907 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2908 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2912 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2915 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2919 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2925 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2928 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2932 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2935 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2939 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2945 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2948 postinst, postrm, etc.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2952 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2958 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2961 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2962 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2963 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2964 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2965 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2969 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2972 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2973 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2977 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2980 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2984 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2987 installing package files into.
2988 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2993 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2997 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3001 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3007 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3010 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3014 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3017 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3018 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3019 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3020 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3024 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3026 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3027 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3028 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3029 multiple binary packages.
3030 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3031 should rebuild them with this version.
3032 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3036 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3039 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3043 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3046 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3050 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3053 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3054 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3055 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3056 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3057 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3058 debian/README.debian.
3059 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3060 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3061 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3062 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3063 in a few situations.)
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3067 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3073 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3079 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3082 * Fixed several man pages.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3086 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3089 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3090 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3094 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3097 is ready for general use.
3098 * Added man pages for all commands.
3099 * Multiple binary package support.
3100 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3101 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3102 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3104 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3105 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3106 auto-installed as parameters.
3107 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3109 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3112 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3113 the package build directory it is to act on.
3114 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3115 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3116 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3120 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3122 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3123 ready to replace debstd.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400