1 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:35:34 -0800
8 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
11 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
12 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
13 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
14 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
18 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
24 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
27 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
28 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
29 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
30 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
31 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
32 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
37 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
40 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
44 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
50 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
53 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
58 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
61 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
62 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
63 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
64 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
68 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
72 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
75 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
78 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
79 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
82 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
84 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
85 the TODO entry about it.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
89 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
96 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
99 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
100 prevent that. Closes: #73052
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
104 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Typo, Closes: #72932
107 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
108 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
109 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
110 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
114 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
120 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
127 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
130 (this appears to be logal).
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
134 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
137 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
138 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
139 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
140 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
144 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
150 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
152 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
153 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
154 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
155 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
156 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
160 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
166 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
169 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
173 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
180 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
183 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
184 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
185 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
190 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
197 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
203 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
205 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
206 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
207 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
208 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
209 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
210 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
211 notice until v2 is complete.
212 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
213 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
214 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
215 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
216 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
217 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
219 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
220 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
221 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
222 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
226 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
232 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
239 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
242 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
246 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
253 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
256 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
257 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
258 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
259 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
264 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
267 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
268 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
269 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
277 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
278 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
282 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
285 just skip files that end in -\d+.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
289 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
292 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
296 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
303 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
305 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
306 depend on the build and install targets.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
310 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
313 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
317 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
324 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
330 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
336 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
339 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
340 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
341 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
342 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
343 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
344 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
346 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
347 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
348 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
349 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
350 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
351 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
352 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
356 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
362 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
368 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
371 right place. Closes: #55065
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
375 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
382 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Make all examples rules files executable.
385 * Copyright date updates.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
389 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
392 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
397 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
403 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
410 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
416 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
422 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
428 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
431 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
432 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
433 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
434 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
435 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
436 bits until all files have been registered.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
440 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_installmanpages:
443 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
444 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
445 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
446 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
447 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
448 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
449 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
450 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
451 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
452 otherwise change the result at all.
454 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
455 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
456 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
457 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
458 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
463 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
469 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
472 act on files that don't exist.
473 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
474 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
475 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
477 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
478 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
479 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
480 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
484 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
490 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
496 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
499 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
503 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
506 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
508 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
509 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
510 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
514 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
517 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
518 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
519 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
520 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
521 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
522 does not compress. Closes: #41733
523 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
525 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
527 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
531 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
538 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
544 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
550 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
553 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
557 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
569 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
572 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
573 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
574 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
575 I made some changes, though:
576 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
577 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
578 that is a clear violation of policy.
579 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
580 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
581 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
582 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
583 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
584 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
585 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
586 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
587 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
589 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
593 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
599 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
602 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
606 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
609 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
610 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
615 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
621 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
628 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
631 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
632 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
633 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
634 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
635 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
636 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
637 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
641 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
647 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
651 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
652 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
656 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
662 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
665 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
669 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
672 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
673 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
677 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
679 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
684 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
688 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
692 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
694 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
695 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
696 for the dependancies to be generated.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
700 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
703 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
707 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
710 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
711 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
712 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
717 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
720 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
721 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
725 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
731 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
737 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
740 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
744 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
750 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
752 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
753 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
754 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
755 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
756 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
757 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
758 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
759 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
760 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
761 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
762 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
763 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
764 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
770 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
771 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
772 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
774 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
775 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
776 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
777 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
778 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
779 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
781 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
782 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
789 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
793 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
800 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
802 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
803 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
811 for building debhelper.
812 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
816 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Fixed makefile commit target.
826 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
830 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
833 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
834 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
835 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
836 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
837 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
838 it's always available.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
842 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
845 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
846 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
847 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
851 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
854 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
855 modules. (Closes: #42171)
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
859 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
865 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
868 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
872 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
878 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
881 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
882 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
883 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
887 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
890 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
895 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
898 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
899 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
901 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
902 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
906 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
912 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
918 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
920 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
921 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
925 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
928 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
929 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
931 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
935 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
938 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
939 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
940 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
944 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
947 things if CDPATH is set.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
951 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
953 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
957 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
960 seems to make sense for the transition.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
964 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
967 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
972 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
975 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
976 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
980 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
983 that version. (Closes: #40589)
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
987 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
989 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
990 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
991 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
992 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
993 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
997 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1003 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1006 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1007 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1008 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1009 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1010 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1011 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1012 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1013 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1014 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1015 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1020 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1023 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1024 * README: mention doc/v2
1025 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1026 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1030 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1032 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1033 be using this script RSN.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1037 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1040 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1041 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1042 more than 1 init script.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1049 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1053 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Changed perl version detection.
1056 * Changed call to find.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1060 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1063 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1065 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1070 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Really include dh_installpam.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1076 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1079 * Wrote man page for same.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1083 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1086 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1087 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1092 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1099 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1102 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1103 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1104 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1105 x bit was being set!
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1109 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1112 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1113 well. (Closes: 38900)
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1117 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1120 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1121 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1125 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1131 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1138 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1144 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1147 help from Julian Gilbey.
1148 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1149 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1150 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1151 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1152 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1153 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1154 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1159 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1165 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1172 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1178 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1184 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1187 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1191 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1194 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1198 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1201 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1205 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1211 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1214 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1224 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1230 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1233 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1234 may be deleted. (#35845)
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1238 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Various man page enhancements.
1241 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1246 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1249 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1250 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1254 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1257 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1258 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1259 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1261 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1262 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1267 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1273 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Another very minor typo fix.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1279 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Very minor typo fix.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1285 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1288 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1289 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1293 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1299 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1302 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1303 variables properly (#34850).
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1307 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1313 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1316 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1317 (automatically generated by build process).
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1321 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1323 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1327 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1330 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1331 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1333 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1337 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1340 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1344 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * README: minor typo fix.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1350 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1353 leave it at that. :-)
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1357 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1363 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1369 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1372 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1373 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1374 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1378 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1381 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1385 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1388 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1392 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1395 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1396 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1397 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1398 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1402 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1405 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1406 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1407 Craig Small for spotting this.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1411 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1414 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1415 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1419 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1425 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1428 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1432 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1434 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1435 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1436 working on the last version of debhelper.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1440 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1443 being made. (#23255)
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1447 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1453 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1456 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1460 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1463 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1464 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1465 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1466 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1470 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1473 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1474 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1475 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1476 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1478 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1479 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1481 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1486 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1492 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1498 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1501 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1502 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1503 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1504 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1505 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1506 suidregister actually supports it.
1507 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1508 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1512 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1519 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1522 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1523 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1524 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1525 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1526 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1527 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1528 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1532 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1534 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1535 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1539 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1542 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1543 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1544 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1545 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1549 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1552 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1554 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1555 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1556 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1557 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1558 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1559 effect, either. (#30118)
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1563 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1569 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1572 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1573 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1577 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1583 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1586 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1587 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1588 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1589 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1593 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1596 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1597 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1601 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1607 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1610 packages, painlessly.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1614 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1620 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1626 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1632 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * The perl conversion is complete.
1636 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1638 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1639 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1640 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1645 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1648 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1649 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1650 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1654 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1657 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1659 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1661 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1662 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1666 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1669 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1670 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1674 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1680 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1683 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1684 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1685 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1686 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1687 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1691 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1694 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1695 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1696 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1697 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1701 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1704 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1708 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1711 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1712 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1713 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1714 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1715 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1716 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1717 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1718 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1722 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1728 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1731 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1732 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1733 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1738 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1741 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1745 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1748 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1752 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1755 sections of shared libraries.
1756 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1757 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1758 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1759 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1760 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1761 things you don't want them to.
1762 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1763 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1767 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1770 shared libraries. (#26414)
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1774 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1776 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1777 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1778 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1779 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1783 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1787 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1789 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1790 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1791 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1792 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1793 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1797 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1800 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1804 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1807 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1808 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1813 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1816 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1820 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1823 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1824 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1825 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1826 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1827 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1829 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1830 remove debian/files properly.
1831 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1832 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1833 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1834 * Removed bogus menu file.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1838 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1841 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1845 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1848 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1849 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1850 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1851 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1852 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1853 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1857 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1860 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1861 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1862 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1863 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1867 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1874 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1877 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1878 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1880 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1881 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1882 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1883 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1884 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1885 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1889 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1892 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1893 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1894 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1895 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1896 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1897 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1898 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1899 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1900 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1901 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1902 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1903 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1904 passed any switches.
1905 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1909 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1912 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1913 at all for a long while.
1914 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1915 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1916 large chunks in the process.
1917 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1918 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1919 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1924 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1927 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1929 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1934 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1937 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1938 that don't always have the same files in them.
1939 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1940 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1941 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1945 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1949 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1950 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1951 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1952 updating 27 man pages.
1953 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1954 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1955 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1956 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1957 programs act on. (#25247)
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1961 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1965 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1966 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1967 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1968 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1969 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1970 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1975 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1982 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1989 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1992 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1996 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2002 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2005 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2006 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2008 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2009 package by accident.
2010 * Is version 1.0 next?
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2014 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2017 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2018 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2022 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2025 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2026 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2027 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2028 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2029 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2031 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2036 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2039 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2040 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2044 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2047 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2051 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2054 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2055 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2060 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2066 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2069 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2070 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2075 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2081 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2084 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2085 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2086 past week. Thanks, guys!
2088 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2089 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2090 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2091 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2092 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2093 would do in the same situation.
2094 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2095 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2097 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2099 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2100 permissions changed.
2101 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2102 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2103 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2104 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2105 files are treated identically.
2106 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2107 * Minor man page fixes.
2108 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2109 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2110 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2114 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2117 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2118 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2119 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2120 use -X multiple times, too.
2121 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2122 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2126 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2129 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2130 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2134 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2137 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2141 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2144 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2145 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2146 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2147 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2148 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2149 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2150 shape if you're starting a new package.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2154 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2157 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2161 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2164 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2165 because of missing symlinks.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2169 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2175 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2178 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2179 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2180 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2181 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2182 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2184 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2185 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2189 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2191 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2192 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2193 to be changed after the fact :-)
2194 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2198 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2201 no version string after the -V.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2205 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2207 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2208 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2213 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2216 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2220 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2223 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2224 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2225 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2226 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2227 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2228 I always welcome corrections!
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2232 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2238 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2241 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2242 * Documented this new switch.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2246 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2249 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2250 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2251 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2252 no packages use the old behavior.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2256 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2259 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2260 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2264 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2267 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2271 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2277 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2280 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2284 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2287 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2288 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2289 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2293 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2299 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2302 into the source package by accident.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2306 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2309 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2310 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2311 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2312 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2313 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2314 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2319 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2323 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2324 inspired to implement some of it.
2325 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2329 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2332 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2336 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2339 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2340 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2344 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2347 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2348 have done.) (#17598)
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2352 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2358 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2364 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2367 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2371 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2374 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2375 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2379 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2382 argument processor in perl.
2383 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2384 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2385 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2386 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2390 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2393 type directories. (#16933)
2394 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2395 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2396 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2397 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2398 are supported. (#16935)
2399 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2404 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2407 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2411 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2415 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2416 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2417 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2418 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2419 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2420 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2424 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2427 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2428 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2430 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2431 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2432 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2433 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2434 a given package, or -i or -a.
2435 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2436 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2437 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2438 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2439 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2440 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2441 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2442 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2443 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2445 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2446 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2447 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2451 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2454 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2455 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2460 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2463 does not have a section.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2467 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2470 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2471 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2472 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2476 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Fixed typo #16215.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2482 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2485 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2486 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2487 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2488 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2489 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2494 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2497 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2498 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2499 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2504 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2510 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2516 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2519 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2520 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2521 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2522 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2523 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2524 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2528 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2534 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2537 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2541 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2544 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2545 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2546 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2550 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2553 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2557 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2563 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2566 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2570 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2573 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2577 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2583 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2586 postinst, postrm, etc.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2590 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2596 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2599 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2600 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2601 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2602 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2603 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2607 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2610 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2611 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2615 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2618 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2622 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2625 installing package files into.
2626 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2631 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2635 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2639 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2645 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2648 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2652 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2655 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2656 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2657 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2658 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2662 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2664 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2665 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2666 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2667 multiple binary packages.
2668 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2669 should rebuild them with this version.
2670 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2674 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2677 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2681 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2684 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2688 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2691 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2692 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2693 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2694 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2695 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2696 debian/README.debian.
2697 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2698 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2699 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2700 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2701 in a few situations.)
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2705 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2711 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2717 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2720 * Fixed several man pages.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2724 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2727 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2728 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2732 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2735 is ready for general use.
2736 * Added man pages for all commands.
2737 * Multiple binary package support.
2738 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2739 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2740 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2742 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2743 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2744 auto-installed as parameters.
2745 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2747 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2750 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2751 the package build directory it is to act on.
2752 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2753 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2754 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2758 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2760 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2761 ready to replace debstd.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400