1 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
8 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
12 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
17 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
20 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
21 don't make packlist files.
22 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
23 debhelper coding standards.
24 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
25 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
29 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
32 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
36 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
39 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
40 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
41 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
42 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
43 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
44 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
45 but is mildly deprecated.
46 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
47 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
48 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
49 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
50 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
51 switching to statoverrides..
52 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
53 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
54 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
55 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
56 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
57 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
59 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
60 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
61 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
62 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
63 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
64 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
65 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
66 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
67 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
69 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
70 variable names, pod man pages).
71 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
72 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
73 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
74 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
75 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
76 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
77 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
81 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
87 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
94 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
97 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
101 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
103 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
104 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
105 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
109 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
111 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
112 they were previously ignored.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
116 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
118 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
119 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
123 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
125 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
126 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
127 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
131 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
133 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
137 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
139 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
140 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
144 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
146 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
147 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
148 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
149 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
150 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
151 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
152 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
153 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
154 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
155 it is an obsolete program.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
159 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
161 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
165 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
169 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
171 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
175 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
177 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
179 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
181 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
185 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
191 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
193 * typo: Closes, #78567
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
197 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
203 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
209 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
211 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
212 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
213 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
214 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
215 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
216 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
220 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
223 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
228 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
231 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
232 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
233 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
234 backwards-compatability.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
238 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
240 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
241 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
242 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
243 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
244 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
245 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
246 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
248 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
249 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
250 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
252 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
254 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
255 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
256 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
257 should now be raised to severity important..
258 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
259 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
263 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
266 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
271 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Typo, Closes: #77441
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
277 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Completed the fix from the last version.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
283 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
289 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
291 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
296 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
299 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
300 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
301 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
302 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
306 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
312 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
315 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
316 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
317 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
318 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
319 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
320 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
325 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
328 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
332 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
338 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
341 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
346 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
349 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
350 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
351 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
352 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
356 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
360 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
363 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
366 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
367 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
370 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
372 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
373 the TODO entry about it.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
377 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
384 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
387 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
388 prevent that. Closes: #73052
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
392 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Typo, Closes: #72932
395 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
396 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
397 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
398 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
402 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
408 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
415 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
418 (this appears to be logal).
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
422 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
425 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
426 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
427 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
428 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
432 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
438 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
440 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
441 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
442 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
443 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
444 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
448 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
454 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
457 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
461 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
468 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
471 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
472 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
473 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
478 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
485 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
491 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
493 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
494 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
495 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
496 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
497 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
498 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
499 notice until v2 is complete.
500 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
501 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
502 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
503 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
504 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
505 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
507 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
508 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
509 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
510 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
514 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
520 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
527 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
530 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
534 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
541 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
544 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
545 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
546 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
547 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
552 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
555 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
556 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
557 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
562 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
565 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
566 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
573 just skip files that end in -\d+.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
577 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
580 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
584 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
591 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
593 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
594 depend on the build and install targets.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
598 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
601 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
605 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
612 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
618 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
624 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
627 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
628 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
629 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
630 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
631 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
632 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
634 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
635 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
636 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
637 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
638 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
639 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
640 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
644 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
650 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
656 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
659 right place. Closes: #55065
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
663 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
670 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Make all examples rules files executable.
673 * Copyright date updates.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
677 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
680 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
685 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
691 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
698 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
704 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
710 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
716 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
719 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
720 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
721 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
722 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
723 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
724 bits until all files have been registered.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
728 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_installmanpages:
731 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
732 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
733 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
734 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
735 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
736 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
737 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
738 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
739 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
740 otherwise change the result at all.
742 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
743 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
744 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
745 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
746 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
751 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
757 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
760 act on files that don't exist.
761 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
762 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
763 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
765 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
766 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
767 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
768 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
772 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
778 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
784 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
787 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
791 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
794 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
796 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
797 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
798 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
802 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
805 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
806 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
807 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
808 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
809 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
810 does not compress. Closes: #41733
811 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
813 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
815 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
819 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
826 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
832 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
841 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
845 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
851 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
857 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
860 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
861 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
862 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
863 I made some changes, though:
864 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
865 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
866 that is a clear violation of policy.
867 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
868 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
869 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
870 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
871 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
872 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
873 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
874 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
875 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
877 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
881 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
887 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
890 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
894 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
897 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
898 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
903 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
909 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
916 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
919 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
920 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
921 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
922 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
923 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
924 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
925 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
929 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
935 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
939 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
940 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
944 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
950 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
953 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
957 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
960 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
961 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
965 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
967 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
972 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
976 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
980 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
982 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
983 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
984 for the dependancies to be generated.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
988 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
991 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
995 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
998 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
999 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1000 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1005 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1008 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1009 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1013 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1019 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1025 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1028 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1032 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1038 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1041 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1042 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1043 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1044 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1045 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1046 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1047 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1048 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1049 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1050 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1051 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1052 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1056 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1059 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1060 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1062 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1063 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1064 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1065 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1066 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1067 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1069 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1070 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1074 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1077 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1088 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1091 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1096 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1099 for building debhelper.
1100 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1104 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1111 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1114 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1118 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1121 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1122 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1123 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1124 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1125 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1126 it's always available.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1133 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1134 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1135 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1139 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1142 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1143 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1147 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1153 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1156 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1160 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1169 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1170 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1171 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1175 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1178 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1183 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1186 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1187 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1189 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1190 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1194 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1200 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1206 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1209 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1213 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1216 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1217 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1219 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1223 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1226 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1227 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1228 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1235 things if CDPATH is set.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1248 seems to make sense for the transition.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1255 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1260 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1263 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1264 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1268 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1271 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1275 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1278 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1279 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1280 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1281 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1285 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1291 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1294 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1295 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1296 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1297 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1298 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1299 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1300 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1301 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1302 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1303 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1308 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1311 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1312 * README: mention doc/v2
1313 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1314 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1318 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1320 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1321 be using this script RSN.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1325 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1328 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1329 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1330 more than 1 init script.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1334 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1337 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1341 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Changed perl version detection.
1344 * Changed call to find.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1348 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1351 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1353 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1358 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Really include dh_installpam.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1364 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1367 * Wrote man page for same.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1371 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1374 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1375 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1380 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1387 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1390 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1391 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1392 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1393 x bit was being set!
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1397 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1400 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1401 well. (Closes: 38900)
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1405 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1408 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1409 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1413 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1419 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1426 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1432 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1435 help from Julian Gilbey.
1436 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1437 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1438 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1439 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1440 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1441 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1442 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1447 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1453 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1460 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1466 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1472 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1475 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1479 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1482 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1486 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1489 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1493 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1499 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1502 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1506 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1512 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1518 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1521 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1522 may be deleted. (#35845)
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1526 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Various man page enhancements.
1529 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1534 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1537 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1538 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1542 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1545 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1546 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1547 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1549 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1550 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1555 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1561 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Another very minor typo fix.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1567 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Very minor typo fix.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1573 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1576 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1577 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1581 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1587 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1590 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1591 variables properly (#34850).
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1595 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1601 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1604 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1605 (automatically generated by build process).
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1609 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1611 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1615 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1618 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1619 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1621 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1625 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1628 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1632 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * README: minor typo fix.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1638 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1641 leave it at that. :-)
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1645 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1651 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1657 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1660 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1661 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1662 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1666 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1669 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1673 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1676 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1680 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1683 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1684 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1685 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1686 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1690 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1693 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1694 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1695 Craig Small for spotting this.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1699 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1702 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1703 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1707 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1713 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1716 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1720 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1722 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1723 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1724 working on the last version of debhelper.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1728 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1731 being made. (#23255)
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1735 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1741 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1744 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1748 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1751 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1752 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1753 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1754 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1758 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1761 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1762 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1763 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1764 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1766 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1767 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1769 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1774 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1780 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1786 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1789 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1790 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1791 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1792 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1793 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1794 suidregister actually supports it.
1795 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1796 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1800 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1807 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1810 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1811 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1812 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1813 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1814 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1815 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1816 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1820 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1822 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1823 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1827 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1830 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1831 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1832 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1833 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1837 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1840 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1842 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1843 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1844 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1845 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1846 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1847 effect, either. (#30118)
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1851 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1857 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1860 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1861 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1865 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1871 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1874 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1875 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1876 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1877 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1881 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1884 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1885 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1889 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1895 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1898 packages, painlessly.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1902 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1908 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1914 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1920 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * The perl conversion is complete.
1924 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1926 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1927 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1928 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1933 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1936 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1937 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1938 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1942 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1945 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1947 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1949 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1950 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1954 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1957 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1958 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1962 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1968 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1971 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1972 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1973 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1974 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1975 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1979 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1982 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1983 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1984 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1985 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1989 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1992 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1996 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1999 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2000 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2001 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2002 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2003 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2004 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2005 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2006 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2010 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2016 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2019 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2020 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2021 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2026 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2029 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2033 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2036 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2040 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2043 sections of shared libraries.
2044 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2045 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2046 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2047 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2048 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2049 things you don't want them to.
2050 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2051 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2055 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2058 shared libraries. (#26414)
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2062 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2064 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2065 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2066 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2067 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2071 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2075 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2077 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2078 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2079 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2080 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2081 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2085 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2088 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2092 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2095 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2096 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2101 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2104 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2108 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2111 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2112 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2113 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2114 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2115 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2117 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2118 remove debian/files properly.
2119 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2120 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2121 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2122 * Removed bogus menu file.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2126 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2129 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2133 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2136 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2137 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2138 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2139 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2140 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2141 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2145 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2148 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2149 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2150 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2151 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2155 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2162 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2165 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2166 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2168 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2169 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2170 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2171 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2172 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2173 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2177 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2180 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2181 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2182 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2183 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2184 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2185 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2186 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2187 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2188 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2189 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2190 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2191 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2192 passed any switches.
2193 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2197 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2200 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2201 at all for a long while.
2202 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2203 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2204 large chunks in the process.
2205 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2206 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2207 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2212 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2215 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2217 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2222 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2225 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2226 that don't always have the same files in them.
2227 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2228 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2229 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2233 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2237 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2238 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2239 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2240 updating 27 man pages.
2241 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2242 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2243 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2244 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2245 programs act on. (#25247)
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2249 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2253 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2254 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2255 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2256 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2257 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2258 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2263 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2270 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2277 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2280 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2284 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2290 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2293 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2294 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2295 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2296 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2297 package by accident.
2298 * Is version 1.0 next?
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2302 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2305 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2306 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2310 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2313 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2314 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2315 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2316 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2317 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2319 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2324 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2327 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2328 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2332 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2335 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2339 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2342 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2343 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2348 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2354 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2357 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2358 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2363 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2369 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2372 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2373 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2374 past week. Thanks, guys!
2376 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2377 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2378 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2379 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2380 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2381 would do in the same situation.
2382 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2383 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2385 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2387 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2388 permissions changed.
2389 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2390 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2391 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2392 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2393 files are treated identically.
2394 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2395 * Minor man page fixes.
2396 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2397 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2398 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2402 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2405 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2406 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2407 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2408 use -X multiple times, too.
2409 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2410 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2414 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2417 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2418 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2422 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2425 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2429 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2432 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2433 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2434 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2435 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2436 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2437 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2438 shape if you're starting a new package.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2442 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2445 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2449 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2452 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2453 because of missing symlinks.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2457 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2463 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2466 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2467 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2468 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2469 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2470 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2472 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2473 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2477 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2479 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2480 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2481 to be changed after the fact :-)
2482 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2486 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2489 no version string after the -V.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2493 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2495 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2496 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2501 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2504 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2508 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2511 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2512 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2513 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2514 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2515 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2516 I always welcome corrections!
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2520 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2526 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2529 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2530 * Documented this new switch.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2534 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2537 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2538 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2539 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2540 no packages use the old behavior.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2544 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2547 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2548 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2552 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2555 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2559 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2565 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2568 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2572 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2575 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2576 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2577 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2581 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2587 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2590 into the source package by accident.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2594 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2597 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2598 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2599 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2600 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2601 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2602 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2607 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2611 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2612 inspired to implement some of it.
2613 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2617 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2620 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2624 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2627 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2628 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2632 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2635 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2636 have done.) (#17598)
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2640 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2646 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2652 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2655 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2659 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2662 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2663 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2667 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2670 argument processor in perl.
2671 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2672 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2673 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2674 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2678 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2681 type directories. (#16933)
2682 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2683 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2684 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2685 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2686 are supported. (#16935)
2687 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2692 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2695 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2699 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2703 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2704 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2705 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2706 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2707 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2708 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2712 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2715 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2716 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2718 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2719 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2720 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2721 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2722 a given package, or -i or -a.
2723 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2724 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2725 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2726 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2727 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2728 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2729 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2730 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2731 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2733 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2734 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2735 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2739 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2742 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2743 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2748 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2751 does not have a section.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2755 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2758 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2759 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2760 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2764 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Fixed typo #16215.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2770 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2773 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2774 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2775 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2776 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2777 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2782 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2785 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2786 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2787 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2792 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2798 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2804 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2807 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2808 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2809 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2810 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2811 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2812 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2816 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2822 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2825 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2829 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2832 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2833 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2834 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2838 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2841 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2845 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2851 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2854 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2858 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2861 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2865 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2871 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2874 postinst, postrm, etc.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2878 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2884 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2887 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2888 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2889 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2890 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2891 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2895 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2898 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2899 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2903 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2906 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2910 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2913 installing package files into.
2914 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2919 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2923 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2927 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2933 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2936 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2940 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2943 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2944 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2945 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2946 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2950 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2952 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2953 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2954 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2955 multiple binary packages.
2956 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2957 should rebuild them with this version.
2958 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2962 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2965 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2969 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2972 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2976 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2979 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2980 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2981 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2982 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2983 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2984 debian/README.debian.
2985 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2986 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2987 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2988 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2989 in a few situations.)
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2993 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2999 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3005 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3008 * Fixed several man pages.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3012 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3015 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3016 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3020 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3023 is ready for general use.
3024 * Added man pages for all commands.
3025 * Multiple binary package support.
3026 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3027 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3028 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3030 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3031 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3032 auto-installed as parameters.
3033 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3035 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3038 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3039 the package build directory it is to act on.
3040 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3041 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3042 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3046 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3048 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3049 ready to replace debstd.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400