1 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
5 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
9 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
15 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
17 * typo: Closes, #78567
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
21 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
27 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
33 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
35 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
36 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
37 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
38 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
39 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
40 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
44 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
47 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
52 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
55 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
56 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
57 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
58 backwards-compatability.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
62 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
64 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
65 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
66 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
67 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
68 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
69 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
70 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
72 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
73 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
74 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
76 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
78 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
79 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
80 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
81 should now be raised to severity important..
82 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
83 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
87 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
90 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
95 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Typo, Closes: #77441
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
101 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Completed the fix from the last version.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
107 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
113 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
115 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
120 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
123 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
124 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
125 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
126 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
130 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
136 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
139 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
140 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
141 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
142 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
143 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
144 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
149 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
152 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
156 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
162 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
165 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
170 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
173 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
174 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
175 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
176 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
180 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
184 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
187 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
190 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
191 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
194 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
196 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
197 the TODO entry about it.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
201 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
208 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
211 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
212 prevent that. Closes: #73052
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
216 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Typo, Closes: #72932
219 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
220 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
221 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
222 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
226 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
232 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
239 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
242 (this appears to be logal).
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
246 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
249 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
250 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
251 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
252 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
256 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
262 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
264 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
265 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
266 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
267 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
268 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
272 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
278 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
281 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
285 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
287 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
292 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
295 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
296 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
297 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
302 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
309 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
315 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
317 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
318 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
319 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
320 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
321 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
322 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
323 notice until v2 is complete.
324 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
325 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
326 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
327 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
328 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
329 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
331 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
332 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
333 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
334 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
338 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
344 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
351 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
354 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
358 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
365 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
368 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
369 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
370 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
371 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
376 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
379 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
380 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
381 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
386 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
389 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
390 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
394 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
397 just skip files that end in -\d+.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
401 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
404 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
408 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
415 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
417 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
418 depend on the build and install targets.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
422 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
425 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
429 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
436 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
442 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
448 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
451 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
452 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
453 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
454 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
455 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
456 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
458 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
459 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
460 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
461 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
462 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
463 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
464 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
468 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
474 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
480 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
483 right place. Closes: #55065
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
487 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
494 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Make all examples rules files executable.
497 * Copyright date updates.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
501 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
504 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
509 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
515 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
522 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
528 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
534 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
540 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
543 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
544 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
545 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
546 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
547 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
548 bits until all files have been registered.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
552 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_installmanpages:
555 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
556 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
557 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
558 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
559 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
560 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
561 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
562 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
563 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
564 otherwise change the result at all.
566 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
567 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
568 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
569 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
570 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
575 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
581 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
584 act on files that don't exist.
585 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
586 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
587 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
589 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
590 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
591 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
592 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
596 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
602 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
608 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
611 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
615 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
618 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
620 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
621 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
622 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
626 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
629 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
630 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
631 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
632 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
633 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
634 does not compress. Closes: #41733
635 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
637 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
639 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
643 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
650 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
656 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
662 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
665 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
669 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
675 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
681 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
684 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
685 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
686 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
687 I made some changes, though:
688 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
689 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
690 that is a clear violation of policy.
691 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
692 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
693 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
694 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
695 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
696 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
697 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
698 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
699 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
701 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
705 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
711 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
714 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
718 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
721 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
722 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
727 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
733 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
740 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
743 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
744 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
745 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
746 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
747 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
748 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
749 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
753 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
759 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
763 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
764 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
774 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
777 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
781 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
784 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
785 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
789 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
791 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
796 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
800 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
804 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
806 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
807 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
808 for the dependancies to be generated.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
812 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
815 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
819 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
822 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
823 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
824 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
829 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
832 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
833 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
837 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
843 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
849 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
852 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
856 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
862 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
864 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
865 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
866 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
867 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
868 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
869 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
870 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
871 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
872 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
873 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
874 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
875 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
876 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
880 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
882 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
883 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
884 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
886 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
887 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
888 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
889 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
890 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
891 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
893 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
894 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
898 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
901 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
905 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
912 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
914 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
915 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
920 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
923 for building debhelper.
924 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
928 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
935 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Fixed makefile commit target.
938 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
942 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
945 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
946 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
947 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
948 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
949 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
950 it's always available.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
954 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
957 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
958 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
959 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
963 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
966 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
967 modules. (Closes: #42171)
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
971 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
980 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
984 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
990 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
993 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
994 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
995 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
999 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1002 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1007 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1010 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1011 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1013 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1014 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1024 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1030 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1033 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1037 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1040 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1041 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1043 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1047 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1050 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1051 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1052 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1056 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1059 things if CDPATH is set.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1063 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1069 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1072 seems to make sense for the transition.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1076 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1079 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1084 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1087 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1088 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1092 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1095 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1099 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1102 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1103 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1104 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1105 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1109 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1115 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1118 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1119 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1120 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1121 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1122 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1123 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1124 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1125 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1126 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1127 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1132 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1135 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1136 * README: mention doc/v2
1137 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1138 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1142 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1144 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1145 be using this script RSN.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1149 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1152 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1153 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1154 more than 1 init script.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1158 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1161 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1165 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Changed perl version detection.
1168 * Changed call to find.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1172 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1175 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1177 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1182 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Really include dh_installpam.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1188 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1191 * Wrote man page for same.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1195 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1198 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1199 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1204 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1211 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1214 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1215 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1216 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1217 x bit was being set!
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1221 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1224 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1225 well. (Closes: 38900)
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1229 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1232 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1233 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1237 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1243 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1250 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1256 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1259 help from Julian Gilbey.
1260 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1261 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1262 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1263 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1264 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1265 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1266 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1271 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1277 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1284 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1290 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1296 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1299 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1303 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1306 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1310 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1313 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1317 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1323 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1326 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1330 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1336 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1342 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1345 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1346 may be deleted. (#35845)
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1350 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Various man page enhancements.
1353 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1358 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1361 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1362 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1366 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1369 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1370 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1371 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1373 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1374 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1379 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1385 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Another very minor typo fix.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1391 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Very minor typo fix.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1397 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1400 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1401 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1405 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1411 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1414 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1415 variables properly (#34850).
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1419 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1425 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1428 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1429 (automatically generated by build process).
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1433 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1435 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1439 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1442 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1443 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1445 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1449 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1452 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1456 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * README: minor typo fix.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1462 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1465 leave it at that. :-)
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1469 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1475 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1481 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1484 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1485 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1486 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1490 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1493 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1497 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1500 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1504 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1507 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1508 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1509 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1510 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1514 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1517 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1518 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1519 Craig Small for spotting this.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1523 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1526 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1527 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1531 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1537 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1540 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1544 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1546 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1547 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1548 working on the last version of debhelper.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1552 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1555 being made. (#23255)
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1559 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1565 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1568 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1572 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1575 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1576 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1577 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1578 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1582 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1585 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1586 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1587 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1588 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1590 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1591 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1593 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1598 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1604 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1610 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1613 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1614 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1615 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1616 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1617 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1618 suidregister actually supports it.
1619 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1620 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1624 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1631 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1634 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1635 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1636 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1637 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1638 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1639 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1640 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1644 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1646 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1647 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1651 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1654 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1655 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1656 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1657 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1661 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1664 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1666 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1667 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1668 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1669 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1670 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1671 effect, either. (#30118)
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1675 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1681 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1684 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1685 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1689 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1695 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1698 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1699 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1700 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1701 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1705 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1708 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1709 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1713 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1719 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1722 packages, painlessly.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1726 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1732 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1738 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1744 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * The perl conversion is complete.
1748 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1750 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1751 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1752 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1757 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1760 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1761 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1762 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1766 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1769 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1771 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1773 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1774 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1778 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1781 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1782 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1786 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1792 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1795 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1796 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1797 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1798 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1799 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1803 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1806 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1807 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1808 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1809 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1813 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1816 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1820 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1823 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1824 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1825 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1826 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1827 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1828 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1829 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1830 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1834 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1840 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1843 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1844 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1845 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1850 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1853 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1857 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1860 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1864 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1867 sections of shared libraries.
1868 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1869 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1870 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1871 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1872 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1873 things you don't want them to.
1874 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1875 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1879 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1882 shared libraries. (#26414)
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1886 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1888 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1889 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1890 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1891 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1895 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1899 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1901 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1902 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1903 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1904 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1905 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1909 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1912 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1916 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1919 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1920 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1925 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1928 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1932 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1935 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1936 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1937 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1938 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1939 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1941 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1942 remove debian/files properly.
1943 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1944 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1945 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1946 * Removed bogus menu file.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1950 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1953 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1957 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1960 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1961 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1962 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1963 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1964 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1965 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1969 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1972 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1973 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1974 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1975 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1979 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1986 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1989 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1990 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1992 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1993 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1994 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1995 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1996 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1997 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2001 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2004 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2005 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2006 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2007 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2008 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2009 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2010 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2011 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2012 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2013 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2014 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2015 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2016 passed any switches.
2017 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2021 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2024 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2025 at all for a long while.
2026 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2027 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2028 large chunks in the process.
2029 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2030 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2031 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2036 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2039 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2041 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2046 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2049 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2050 that don't always have the same files in them.
2051 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2052 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2053 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2057 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2061 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2062 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2063 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2064 updating 27 man pages.
2065 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2066 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2067 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2068 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2069 programs act on. (#25247)
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2073 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2077 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2078 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2079 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2080 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2081 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2082 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2087 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2094 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2101 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2104 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2108 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2114 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2117 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2118 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2119 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2120 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2121 package by accident.
2122 * Is version 1.0 next?
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2126 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2129 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2130 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2134 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2137 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2138 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2139 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2140 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2141 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2143 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2148 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2151 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2152 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2156 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2159 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2163 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2166 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2167 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2172 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2178 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2181 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2182 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2187 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2193 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2196 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2197 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2198 past week. Thanks, guys!
2200 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2201 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2202 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2203 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2204 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2205 would do in the same situation.
2206 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2207 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2209 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2211 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2212 permissions changed.
2213 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2214 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2215 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2216 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2217 files are treated identically.
2218 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2219 * Minor man page fixes.
2220 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2221 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2222 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2226 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2229 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2230 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2231 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2232 use -X multiple times, too.
2233 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2234 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2238 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2241 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2242 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2246 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2249 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2253 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2256 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2257 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2258 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2259 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2260 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2261 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2262 shape if you're starting a new package.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2266 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2269 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2273 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2276 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2277 because of missing symlinks.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2281 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2287 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2290 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2291 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2292 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2293 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2294 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2296 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2297 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2301 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2303 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2304 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2305 to be changed after the fact :-)
2306 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2310 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2313 no version string after the -V.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2317 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2319 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2320 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2325 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2328 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2332 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2335 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2336 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2337 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2338 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2339 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2340 I always welcome corrections!
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2344 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2350 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2353 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2354 * Documented this new switch.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2358 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2361 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2362 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2363 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2364 no packages use the old behavior.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2368 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2371 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2372 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2376 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2379 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2383 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2389 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2392 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2396 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2399 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2400 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2401 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2405 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2411 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2414 into the source package by accident.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2418 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2421 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2422 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2423 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2424 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2425 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2426 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2431 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2435 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2436 inspired to implement some of it.
2437 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2441 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2444 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2448 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2451 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2452 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2456 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2459 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2460 have done.) (#17598)
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2464 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2470 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2476 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2479 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2483 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2486 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2487 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2491 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2494 argument processor in perl.
2495 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2496 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2497 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2498 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2502 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2505 type directories. (#16933)
2506 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2507 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2508 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2509 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2510 are supported. (#16935)
2511 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2516 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2519 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2523 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2527 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2528 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2529 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2530 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2531 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2532 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2536 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2539 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2540 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2542 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2543 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2544 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2545 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2546 a given package, or -i or -a.
2547 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2548 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2549 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2550 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2551 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2552 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2553 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2554 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2555 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2557 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2558 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2559 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2563 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2566 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2567 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2572 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2575 does not have a section.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2579 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2582 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2583 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2584 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2588 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Fixed typo #16215.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2594 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2597 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2598 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2599 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2600 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2601 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2606 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2609 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2610 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2611 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2616 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2622 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2628 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2631 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2632 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2633 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2634 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2635 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2636 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2640 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2646 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2649 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2653 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2656 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2657 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2658 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2662 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2665 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2669 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2675 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2678 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2682 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2685 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2689 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2695 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2698 postinst, postrm, etc.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2702 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2708 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2711 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2712 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2713 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2714 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2715 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2719 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2722 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2723 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2727 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2730 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2734 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2737 installing package files into.
2738 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2743 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2747 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2751 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2757 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2760 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2764 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2767 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2768 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2769 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2770 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2774 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2776 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2777 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2778 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2779 multiple binary packages.
2780 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2781 should rebuild them with this version.
2782 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2786 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2789 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2793 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2796 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2800 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2803 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2804 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2805 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2806 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2807 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2808 debian/README.debian.
2809 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2810 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2811 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2812 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2813 in a few situations.)
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2817 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2823 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2829 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2832 * Fixed several man pages.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2836 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2839 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2840 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2844 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2847 is ready for general use.
2848 * Added man pages for all commands.
2849 * Multiple binary package support.
2850 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2851 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2852 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2854 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2855 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2856 auto-installed as parameters.
2857 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2859 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2862 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2863 the package build directory it is to act on.
2864 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2865 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2866 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2870 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2872 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2873 ready to replace debstd.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400