1 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
7 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
13 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
19 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
25 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
28 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
32 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
35 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
36 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
37 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
38 followed. Closes: #85483
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
42 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
44 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
45 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
46 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
50 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
53 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
54 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
55 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
56 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
57 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
58 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
59 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
60 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
61 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
62 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
63 Closes: #88464, #77743
64 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
65 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
66 us to deal with that gracefully.
67 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
69 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
70 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
71 a while, Closes: #51225
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
75 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
81 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
84 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
88 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
92 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
97 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
100 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
101 don't make packlist files.
102 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
103 debhelper coding standards.
104 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
105 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
109 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
112 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
116 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
119 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
120 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
121 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
122 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
123 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
124 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
125 but is mildly deprecated.
126 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
127 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
128 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
129 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
130 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
131 switching to statoverrides..
132 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
133 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
134 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
135 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
136 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
137 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
139 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
140 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
141 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
142 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
143 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
144 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
145 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
146 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
147 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
149 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
150 variable names, pod man pages).
151 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
152 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
153 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
154 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
155 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
156 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
157 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
161 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
167 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
174 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
177 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
181 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
183 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
184 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
185 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
189 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
191 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
192 they were previously ignored.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
196 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
198 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
199 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
203 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
205 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
206 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
207 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
211 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
213 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
217 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
219 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
220 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
224 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
226 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
227 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
228 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
229 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
230 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
231 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
232 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
233 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
234 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
235 it is an obsolete program.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
239 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
241 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
245 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
249 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
251 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
255 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
257 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
259 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
261 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
265 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
271 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
273 * typo: Closes, #78567
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
277 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
283 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
289 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
291 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
292 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
293 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
294 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
295 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
296 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
300 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
303 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
308 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
311 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
312 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
313 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
314 backwards-compatability.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
318 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
320 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
321 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
322 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
323 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
324 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
325 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
326 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
328 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
329 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
330 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
332 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
334 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
335 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
336 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
337 should now be raised to severity important..
338 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
339 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
343 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
346 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
351 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Typo, Closes: #77441
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
357 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Completed the fix from the last version.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
363 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
369 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
371 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
376 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
379 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
380 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
381 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
382 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
386 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
392 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
395 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
396 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
397 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
398 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
399 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
400 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
405 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
408 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
412 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
418 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
421 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
426 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
429 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
430 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
431 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
432 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
436 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
440 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
443 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
446 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
447 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
450 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
452 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
453 the TODO entry about it.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
457 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
464 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
467 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
468 prevent that. Closes: #73052
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
472 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Typo, Closes: #72932
475 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
476 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
477 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
478 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
482 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
488 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
495 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
498 (this appears to be logal).
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
502 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
505 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
506 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
507 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
508 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
512 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
518 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
520 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
521 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
522 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
523 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
524 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
528 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
534 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
537 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
541 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
548 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
551 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
552 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
553 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
558 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
565 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
571 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
573 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
574 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
575 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
576 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
577 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
578 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
579 notice until v2 is complete.
580 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
581 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
582 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
583 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
584 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
585 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
587 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
588 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
589 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
590 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
594 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
596 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
600 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
607 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
610 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
614 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
621 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
624 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
625 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
626 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
627 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
632 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
635 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
636 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
637 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
642 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
645 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
646 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
650 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
653 just skip files that end in -\d+.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
657 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
660 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
664 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
671 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
673 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
674 depend on the build and install targets.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
678 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
681 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
685 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
692 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
698 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
704 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
707 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
708 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
709 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
710 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
711 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
712 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
714 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
715 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
716 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
717 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
718 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
719 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
720 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
724 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
730 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
736 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
739 right place. Closes: #55065
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
743 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
750 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Make all examples rules files executable.
753 * Copyright date updates.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
757 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
760 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
765 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
771 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
778 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
784 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
790 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
796 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
799 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
800 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
801 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
802 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
803 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
804 bits until all files have been registered.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
808 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_installmanpages:
811 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
812 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
813 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
814 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
815 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
816 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
817 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
818 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
819 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
820 otherwise change the result at all.
822 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
823 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
824 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
825 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
826 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
831 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
837 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
840 act on files that don't exist.
841 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
842 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
843 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
845 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
846 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
847 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
848 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
852 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
858 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
864 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
867 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
871 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
874 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
876 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
877 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
878 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
882 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
885 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
886 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
887 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
888 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
889 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
890 does not compress. Closes: #41733
891 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
893 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
895 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
899 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
906 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
912 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
918 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
921 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
925 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
931 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
937 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
940 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
941 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
942 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
943 I made some changes, though:
944 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
945 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
946 that is a clear violation of policy.
947 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
948 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
949 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
950 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
951 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
952 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
953 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
954 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
955 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
957 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
961 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
967 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
970 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
974 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
977 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
978 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
983 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
989 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
999 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1000 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1001 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1002 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1003 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1004 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1005 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1009 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1015 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1019 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1020 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1024 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1030 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1033 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1037 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1040 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1041 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1045 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1047 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1052 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1056 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1063 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1064 for the dependancies to be generated.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1068 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1071 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1075 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1078 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1079 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1080 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1085 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1088 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1089 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1099 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1105 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1108 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1112 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1118 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1121 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1122 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1123 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1124 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1125 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1126 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1127 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1128 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1129 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1130 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1131 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1132 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1136 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1139 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1140 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1142 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1143 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1144 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1145 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1146 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1147 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1149 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1150 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1154 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1157 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1161 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1168 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1171 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1176 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1179 for building debhelper.
1180 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1191 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1194 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1198 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1201 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1202 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1203 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1204 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1205 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1206 it's always available.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1210 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1213 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1214 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1215 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1219 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1222 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1223 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1227 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1233 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1236 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1240 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1246 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1249 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1250 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1251 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1255 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1258 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1263 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1266 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1267 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1269 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1270 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1274 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1280 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1286 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1289 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1293 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1296 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1297 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1299 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1306 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1307 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1308 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1312 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1315 things if CDPATH is set.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1319 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1325 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1328 seems to make sense for the transition.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1332 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1335 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1340 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1343 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1344 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1348 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1351 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1355 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1358 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1359 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1360 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1361 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1371 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1374 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1375 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1376 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1377 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1378 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1379 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1380 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1381 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1382 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1383 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1388 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1391 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1392 * README: mention doc/v2
1393 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1394 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1398 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1400 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1401 be using this script RSN.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1405 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1408 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1409 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1410 more than 1 init script.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1414 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1417 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1421 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Changed perl version detection.
1424 * Changed call to find.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1428 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1431 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1433 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1438 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Really include dh_installpam.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1444 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1447 * Wrote man page for same.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1451 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1454 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1455 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1460 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1467 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1470 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1471 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1472 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1473 x bit was being set!
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1477 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1480 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1481 well. (Closes: 38900)
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1485 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1488 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1489 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1493 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1499 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1506 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1512 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1515 help from Julian Gilbey.
1516 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1517 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1518 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1519 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1520 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1521 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1522 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1527 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1533 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1540 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1546 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1552 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1555 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1559 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1562 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1566 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1569 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1579 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1582 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1586 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1592 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1598 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1601 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1602 may be deleted. (#35845)
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1606 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Various man page enhancements.
1609 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1614 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1617 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1618 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1622 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1625 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1626 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1627 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1629 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1630 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1635 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1641 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Another very minor typo fix.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1647 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Very minor typo fix.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1653 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1656 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1657 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1661 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1667 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1670 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1671 variables properly (#34850).
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1675 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1681 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1684 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1685 (automatically generated by build process).
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1689 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1691 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1695 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1698 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1699 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1701 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1705 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1708 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1712 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * README: minor typo fix.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1718 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1721 leave it at that. :-)
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1725 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1731 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1737 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1740 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1741 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1742 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1746 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1749 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1753 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1756 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1760 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1763 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1764 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1765 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1766 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1770 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1773 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1774 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1775 Craig Small for spotting this.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1779 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1782 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1783 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1787 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1793 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1796 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1800 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1802 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1803 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1804 working on the last version of debhelper.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1808 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1811 being made. (#23255)
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1815 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1821 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1824 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1828 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1831 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1832 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1833 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1834 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1838 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1841 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1842 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1843 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1844 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1846 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1847 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1849 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1854 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1860 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1866 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1869 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1870 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1871 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1872 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1873 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1874 suidregister actually supports it.
1875 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1876 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1880 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1887 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1890 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1891 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1892 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1893 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1894 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1895 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1896 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1900 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1902 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1903 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1907 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1910 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1911 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1912 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1913 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1917 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1920 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1922 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1923 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1924 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1925 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1926 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1927 effect, either. (#30118)
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1931 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1937 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1940 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1941 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1945 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1951 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1954 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1955 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1956 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1957 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1961 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1964 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1965 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1969 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1975 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1978 packages, painlessly.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1982 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1988 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1994 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2000 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * The perl conversion is complete.
2004 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2006 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2007 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2008 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2013 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2016 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2017 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2018 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2022 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2025 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2027 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2029 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2030 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2034 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2037 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2038 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2042 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2048 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2051 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2052 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2053 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2054 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2055 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2059 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2062 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2063 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2064 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2065 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2069 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2072 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2076 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2079 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2080 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2081 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2082 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2083 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2084 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2085 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2086 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2090 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2096 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2099 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2100 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2101 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2106 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2109 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2113 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2116 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2120 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2123 sections of shared libraries.
2124 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2125 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2126 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2127 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2128 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2129 things you don't want them to.
2130 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2131 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2135 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2138 shared libraries. (#26414)
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2142 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2144 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2145 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2146 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2147 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2151 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2155 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2157 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2158 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2159 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2160 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2161 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2165 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2168 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2172 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2175 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2176 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2181 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2184 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2188 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2191 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2192 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2193 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2194 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2195 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2197 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2198 remove debian/files properly.
2199 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2200 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2201 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2202 * Removed bogus menu file.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2206 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2209 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2213 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2216 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2217 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2218 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2219 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2220 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2221 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2225 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2228 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2229 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2230 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2231 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2235 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2242 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2245 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2246 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2248 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2249 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2250 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2251 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2252 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2253 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2257 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2260 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2261 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2262 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2263 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2264 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2265 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2266 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2267 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2268 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2269 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2270 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2271 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2272 passed any switches.
2273 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2277 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2280 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2281 at all for a long while.
2282 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2283 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2284 large chunks in the process.
2285 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2286 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2287 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2292 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2295 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2297 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2302 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2305 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2306 that don't always have the same files in them.
2307 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2308 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2309 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2313 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2317 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2318 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2319 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2320 updating 27 man pages.
2321 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2322 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2323 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2324 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2325 programs act on. (#25247)
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2329 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2333 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2334 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2335 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2336 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2337 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2338 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2343 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2350 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2357 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2360 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2364 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2370 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2373 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2374 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2375 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2376 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2377 package by accident.
2378 * Is version 1.0 next?
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2382 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2385 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2386 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2390 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2393 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2394 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2395 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2396 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2397 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2399 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2404 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2407 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2408 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2412 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2415 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2419 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2422 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2423 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2428 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2434 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2437 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2438 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2443 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2449 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2452 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2453 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2454 past week. Thanks, guys!
2456 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2457 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2458 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2459 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2460 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2461 would do in the same situation.
2462 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2463 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2465 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2467 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2468 permissions changed.
2469 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2470 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2471 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2472 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2473 files are treated identically.
2474 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2475 * Minor man page fixes.
2476 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2477 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2478 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2482 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2485 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2486 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2487 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2488 use -X multiple times, too.
2489 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2490 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2494 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2497 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2498 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2502 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2505 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2509 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2512 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2513 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2514 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2515 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2516 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2517 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2518 shape if you're starting a new package.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2522 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2525 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2529 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2532 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2533 because of missing symlinks.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2537 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2543 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2546 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2547 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2548 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2549 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2550 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2552 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2553 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2557 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2559 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2560 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2561 to be changed after the fact :-)
2562 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2566 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2569 no version string after the -V.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2573 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2575 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2576 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2581 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2584 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2588 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2591 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2592 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2593 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2594 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2595 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2596 I always welcome corrections!
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2600 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2606 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2609 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2610 * Documented this new switch.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2614 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2617 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2618 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2619 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2620 no packages use the old behavior.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2624 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2627 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2628 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2632 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2635 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2639 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2645 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2648 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2652 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2655 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2656 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2657 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2661 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2667 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2670 into the source package by accident.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2674 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2677 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2678 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2679 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2680 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2681 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2682 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2687 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2691 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2692 inspired to implement some of it.
2693 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2697 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2700 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2704 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2707 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2708 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2712 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2715 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2716 have done.) (#17598)
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2720 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2726 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2732 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2735 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2739 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2742 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2743 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2747 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2750 argument processor in perl.
2751 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2752 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2753 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2754 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2758 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2761 type directories. (#16933)
2762 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2763 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2764 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2765 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2766 are supported. (#16935)
2767 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2772 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2775 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2779 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2783 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2784 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2785 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2786 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2787 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2788 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2792 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2795 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2796 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2798 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2799 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2800 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2801 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2802 a given package, or -i or -a.
2803 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2804 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2805 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2806 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2807 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2808 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2809 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2810 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2811 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2813 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2814 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2815 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2819 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2822 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2823 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2828 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2831 does not have a section.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2835 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2838 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2839 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2840 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2844 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Fixed typo #16215.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2850 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2853 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2854 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2855 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2856 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2857 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2862 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2865 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2866 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2867 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2872 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2878 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2884 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2887 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2888 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2889 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2890 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2891 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2892 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2896 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2902 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2905 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2909 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2912 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2913 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2914 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2918 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2921 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2925 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2931 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2934 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2938 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2941 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2945 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2951 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2954 postinst, postrm, etc.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2958 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2964 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2967 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2968 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2969 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2970 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2971 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2975 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2978 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2979 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2983 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2986 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2990 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2993 installing package files into.
2994 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2999 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3003 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3007 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3013 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3016 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3020 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3023 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3024 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3025 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3026 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3030 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3032 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3033 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3034 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3035 multiple binary packages.
3036 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3037 should rebuild them with this version.
3038 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3042 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3045 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3049 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3052 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3056 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3059 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3060 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3061 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3062 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3063 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3064 debian/README.debian.
3065 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3066 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3067 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3068 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3069 in a few situations.)
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3073 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3079 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3085 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3088 * Fixed several man pages.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3092 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3095 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3096 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3100 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3103 is ready for general use.
3104 * Added man pages for all commands.
3105 * Multiple binary package support.
3106 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3107 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3108 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3110 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3111 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3112 auto-installed as parameters.
3113 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3115 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3118 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3119 the package build directory it is to act on.
3120 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3121 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3122 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3126 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3128 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3129 ready to replace debstd.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400