1 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:31:13 -0500
7 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
9 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
10 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
11 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
15 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
18 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
19 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
20 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
21 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
22 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
23 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
24 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
25 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
26 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
27 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
28 Closes: #88464, #77743
29 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
30 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
31 us to deal with that gracefully.
32 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
34 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
35 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
36 a while, Closes: #51225
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
40 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
46 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
49 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
53 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
57 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
62 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
65 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
66 don't make packlist files.
67 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
68 debhelper coding standards.
69 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
70 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
74 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
77 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
81 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
84 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
85 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
86 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
87 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
88 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
89 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
90 but is mildly deprecated.
91 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
92 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
93 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
94 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
95 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
96 switching to statoverrides..
97 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
98 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
99 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
100 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
101 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
102 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
104 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
105 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
106 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
107 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
108 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
109 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
110 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
111 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
112 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
114 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
115 variable names, pod man pages).
116 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
117 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
118 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
119 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
120 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
121 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
122 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
126 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
132 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
139 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
142 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
146 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
148 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
149 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
150 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
154 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
156 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
157 they were previously ignored.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
161 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
163 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
164 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
168 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
170 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
171 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
172 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
176 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
178 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
182 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
184 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
185 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
189 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
191 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
192 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
193 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
194 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
195 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
196 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
197 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
198 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
199 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
200 it is an obsolete program.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
204 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
206 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
210 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
214 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
216 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
220 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
222 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
224 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
226 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
230 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
236 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
238 * typo: Closes, #78567
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
242 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
248 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
254 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
256 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
257 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
258 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
259 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
260 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
261 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
265 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
268 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
273 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
276 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
277 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
278 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
279 backwards-compatability.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
283 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
285 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
286 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
287 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
288 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
289 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
290 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
291 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
293 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
294 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
295 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
297 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
299 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
300 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
301 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
302 should now be raised to severity important..
303 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
304 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
308 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
311 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
316 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Typo, Closes: #77441
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
322 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Completed the fix from the last version.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
328 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
334 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
336 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
341 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
344 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
345 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
346 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
347 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
351 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
357 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
360 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
361 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
362 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
363 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
364 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
365 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
370 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
373 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
377 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
383 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
386 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
391 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
394 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
395 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
396 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
397 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
401 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
405 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
408 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
411 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
412 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
415 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
417 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
418 the TODO entry about it.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
422 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
429 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
432 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
433 prevent that. Closes: #73052
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
437 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Typo, Closes: #72932
440 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
441 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
442 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
443 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
447 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
453 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
460 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
463 (this appears to be logal).
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
467 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
469 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
470 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
471 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
472 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
473 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
477 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
483 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
485 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
486 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
487 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
488 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
489 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
493 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
499 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
502 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
506 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
513 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
516 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
517 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
518 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
523 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
530 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
536 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
538 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
539 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
540 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
541 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
542 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
543 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
544 notice until v2 is complete.
545 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
546 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
547 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
548 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
549 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
550 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
552 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
553 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
554 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
555 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
559 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
565 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
572 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
575 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
579 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
586 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
589 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
590 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
591 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
592 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
597 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
600 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
601 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
602 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
607 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
610 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
611 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
615 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
618 just skip files that end in -\d+.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
622 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
625 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
629 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
636 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
638 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
639 depend on the build and install targets.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
646 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
650 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
657 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
663 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
669 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
672 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
673 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
674 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
675 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
676 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
677 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
679 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
680 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
681 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
682 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
683 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
684 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
685 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
689 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
695 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
701 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
704 right place. Closes: #55065
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
708 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
715 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Make all examples rules files executable.
718 * Copyright date updates.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
722 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
724 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
725 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
730 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
736 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
743 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
749 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
755 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
761 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
764 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
765 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
766 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
767 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
768 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
769 bits until all files have been registered.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
773 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_installmanpages:
776 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
777 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
778 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
779 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
780 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
781 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
782 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
783 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
784 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
785 otherwise change the result at all.
787 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
788 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
789 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
790 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
791 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
796 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
802 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
805 act on files that don't exist.
806 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
807 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
808 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
810 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
811 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
812 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
813 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
817 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
823 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
829 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
832 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
836 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
839 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
841 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
842 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
843 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
847 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
850 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
851 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
852 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
853 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
854 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
855 does not compress. Closes: #41733
856 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
858 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
860 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
864 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
871 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
883 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
886 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
890 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
896 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
902 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
905 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
906 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
907 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
908 I made some changes, though:
909 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
910 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
911 that is a clear violation of policy.
912 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
913 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
914 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
915 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
916 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
917 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
918 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
919 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
920 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
922 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
926 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
932 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
935 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
939 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
942 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
943 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
948 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
954 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
961 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
964 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
965 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
966 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
967 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
968 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
969 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
970 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
974 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
980 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
984 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
985 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
989 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
995 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
998 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1002 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1005 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1006 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1010 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1012 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1017 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1021 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1025 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1028 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1029 for the dependancies to be generated.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1033 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1036 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1040 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1043 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1044 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1045 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1050 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1053 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1054 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1058 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1064 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1070 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1073 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1077 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1083 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1086 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1087 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1088 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1089 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1090 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1091 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1092 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1093 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1094 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1095 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1096 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1097 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1101 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1104 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1105 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1107 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1108 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1109 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1110 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1111 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1112 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1114 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1115 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1119 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1122 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1126 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1133 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1136 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1141 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1144 for building debhelper.
1145 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1149 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1156 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1159 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1163 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1166 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1167 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1168 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1169 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1170 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1171 it's always available.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1175 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1178 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1179 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1180 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1187 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1188 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1192 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1198 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1201 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1205 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1211 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1214 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1215 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1216 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1220 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1223 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1228 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1231 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1232 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1234 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1235 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1251 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1254 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1258 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1261 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1262 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1264 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1268 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1271 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1272 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1273 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1277 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1280 things if CDPATH is set.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1284 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1290 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1293 seems to make sense for the transition.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1297 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1300 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1305 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1308 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1309 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1316 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1320 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1323 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1324 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1325 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1326 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1336 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1339 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1340 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1341 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1342 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1343 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1344 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1345 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1346 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1347 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1348 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1353 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1356 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1357 * README: mention doc/v2
1358 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1359 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1363 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1365 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1366 be using this script RSN.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1370 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1373 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1374 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1375 more than 1 init script.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1379 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1382 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1386 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Changed perl version detection.
1389 * Changed call to find.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1393 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1396 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1398 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1403 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Really include dh_installpam.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1409 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1412 * Wrote man page for same.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1416 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1419 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1420 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1425 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1432 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1435 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1436 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1437 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1438 x bit was being set!
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1442 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1445 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1446 well. (Closes: 38900)
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1450 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1453 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1454 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1458 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1464 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1471 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1477 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1480 help from Julian Gilbey.
1481 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1482 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1483 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1484 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1485 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1486 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1487 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1492 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1498 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1505 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1511 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1517 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1520 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1524 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1527 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1531 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1534 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1538 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1544 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1547 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1551 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1557 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1563 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1566 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1567 may be deleted. (#35845)
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1571 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Various man page enhancements.
1574 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1579 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1582 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1583 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1587 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1590 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1591 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1592 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1594 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1595 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1600 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1606 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Another very minor typo fix.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1612 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Very minor typo fix.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1618 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1621 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1622 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1626 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1632 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1635 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1636 variables properly (#34850).
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1640 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1646 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1649 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1650 (automatically generated by build process).
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1654 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1656 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1660 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1663 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1664 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1666 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1670 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1673 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1677 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * README: minor typo fix.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1683 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1686 leave it at that. :-)
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1690 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1696 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1702 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1705 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1706 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1707 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1711 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1714 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1718 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1721 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1725 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1728 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1729 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1730 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1731 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1735 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1738 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1739 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1740 Craig Small for spotting this.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1744 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1747 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1748 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1752 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1758 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1761 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1765 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1767 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1768 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1769 working on the last version of debhelper.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1773 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1776 being made. (#23255)
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1780 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1786 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1789 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1793 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1796 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1797 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1798 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1799 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1803 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1806 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1807 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1808 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1809 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1811 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1812 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1814 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1819 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1825 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1831 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1834 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1835 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1836 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1837 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1838 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1839 suidregister actually supports it.
1840 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1841 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1845 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1852 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1855 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1856 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1857 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1858 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1859 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1860 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1861 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1865 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1867 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1868 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1872 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1875 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1876 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1877 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1878 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1882 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1885 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1887 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1888 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1889 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1890 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1891 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1892 effect, either. (#30118)
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1896 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1902 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1905 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1906 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1910 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1916 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1919 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1920 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1921 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1922 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1926 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1929 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1930 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1934 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1940 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1943 packages, painlessly.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1947 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1953 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1959 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1965 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * The perl conversion is complete.
1969 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1971 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1972 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1973 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1978 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1981 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1982 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1983 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1987 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1990 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1992 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1994 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1995 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1999 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2002 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2003 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2007 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2013 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2016 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2017 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2018 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2019 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2020 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2024 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2027 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2028 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2029 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2030 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2034 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2037 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2041 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2044 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2045 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2046 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2047 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2048 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2049 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2050 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2051 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2055 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2061 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2064 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2065 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2066 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2071 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2074 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2078 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2081 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2085 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2088 sections of shared libraries.
2089 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2090 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2091 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2092 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2093 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2094 things you don't want them to.
2095 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2096 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2100 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2103 shared libraries. (#26414)
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2107 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2109 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2110 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2111 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2112 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2116 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2120 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2122 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2123 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2124 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2125 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2126 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2130 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2133 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2137 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2140 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2141 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2146 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2149 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2153 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2156 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2157 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2158 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2159 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2160 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2162 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2163 remove debian/files properly.
2164 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2165 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2166 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2167 * Removed bogus menu file.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2171 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2174 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2178 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2181 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2182 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2183 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2184 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2185 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2186 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2190 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2193 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2194 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2195 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2196 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2200 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2207 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2210 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2211 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2213 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2214 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2215 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2216 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2217 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2218 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2222 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2225 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2226 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2227 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2228 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2229 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2230 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2231 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2232 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2233 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2234 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2235 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2236 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2237 passed any switches.
2238 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2242 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2245 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2246 at all for a long while.
2247 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2248 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2249 large chunks in the process.
2250 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2251 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2252 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2257 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2260 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2262 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2267 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2270 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2271 that don't always have the same files in them.
2272 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2273 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2274 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2278 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2282 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2283 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2284 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2285 updating 27 man pages.
2286 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2287 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2288 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2289 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2290 programs act on. (#25247)
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2294 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2298 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2299 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2300 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2301 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2302 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2303 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2308 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2315 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2322 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2325 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2329 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2335 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2338 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2339 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2340 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2341 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2342 package by accident.
2343 * Is version 1.0 next?
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2347 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2350 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2351 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2355 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2358 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2359 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2360 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2361 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2362 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2364 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2369 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2372 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2373 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2377 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2380 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2384 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2387 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2388 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2393 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2399 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2402 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2403 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2408 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2414 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2417 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2418 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2419 past week. Thanks, guys!
2421 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2422 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2423 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2424 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2425 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2426 would do in the same situation.
2427 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2428 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2430 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2432 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2433 permissions changed.
2434 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2435 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2436 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2437 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2438 files are treated identically.
2439 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2440 * Minor man page fixes.
2441 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2442 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2443 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2447 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2450 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2451 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2452 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2453 use -X multiple times, too.
2454 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2455 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2459 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2462 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2463 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2467 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2470 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2474 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2477 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2478 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2479 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2480 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2481 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2482 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2483 shape if you're starting a new package.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2487 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2490 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2494 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2497 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2498 because of missing symlinks.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2502 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2508 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2511 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2512 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2513 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2514 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2515 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2517 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2518 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2522 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2524 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2525 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2526 to be changed after the fact :-)
2527 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2531 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2534 no version string after the -V.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2538 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2540 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2541 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2546 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2549 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2553 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2556 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2557 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2558 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2559 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2560 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2561 I always welcome corrections!
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2565 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2571 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2574 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2575 * Documented this new switch.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2579 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2582 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2583 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2584 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2585 no packages use the old behavior.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2589 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2592 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2593 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2597 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2600 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2604 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2610 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2613 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2617 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2620 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2621 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2622 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2626 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2632 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2635 into the source package by accident.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2639 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2642 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2643 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2644 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2645 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2646 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2647 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2652 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2656 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2657 inspired to implement some of it.
2658 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2662 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2665 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2669 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2672 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2673 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2677 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2680 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2681 have done.) (#17598)
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2685 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2691 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2697 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2700 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2704 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2707 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2708 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2712 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2715 argument processor in perl.
2716 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2717 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2718 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2719 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2723 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2726 type directories. (#16933)
2727 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2728 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2729 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2730 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2731 are supported. (#16935)
2732 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2737 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2740 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2744 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2748 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2749 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2750 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2751 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2752 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2753 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2757 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2760 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2761 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2763 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2764 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2765 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2766 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2767 a given package, or -i or -a.
2768 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2769 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2770 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2771 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2772 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2773 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2774 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2775 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2776 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2778 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2779 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2780 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2784 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2787 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2788 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2793 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2796 does not have a section.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2800 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2803 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2804 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2805 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2809 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Fixed typo #16215.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2815 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2818 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2819 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2820 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2821 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2822 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2827 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2830 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2831 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2832 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2837 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2843 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2849 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2852 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2853 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2854 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2855 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2856 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2857 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2861 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2867 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2870 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2874 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2877 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2878 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2879 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2883 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2886 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2890 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2896 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2899 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2903 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2906 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2910 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2916 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2919 postinst, postrm, etc.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2923 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2929 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2932 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2933 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2934 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2935 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2936 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2940 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2943 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2944 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2948 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2951 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2955 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2958 installing package files into.
2959 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2964 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2968 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2972 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2978 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2981 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2985 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2988 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2989 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2990 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2991 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2995 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2997 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2998 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2999 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3000 multiple binary packages.
3001 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3002 should rebuild them with this version.
3003 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3007 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3010 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3014 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3017 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3021 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3024 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3025 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3026 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3027 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3028 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3029 debian/README.debian.
3030 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3031 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3032 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3033 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3034 in a few situations.)
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3038 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3044 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3050 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3053 * Fixed several man pages.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3057 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3060 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3061 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3065 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3068 is ready for general use.
3069 * Added man pages for all commands.
3070 * Multiple binary package support.
3071 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3072 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3073 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3075 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3076 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3077 auto-installed as parameters.
3078 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3080 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3083 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3084 the package build directory it is to act on.
3085 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3086 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3087 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3091 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3093 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3094 ready to replace debstd.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400