1 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
7 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
10 act on files that don't exist.
11 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
12 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
13 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
15 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
16 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
17 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
18 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
22 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
28 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
34 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
37 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
41 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
44 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
46 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
47 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
48 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
52 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
55 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
56 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
57 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
58 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
59 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extentions dh_compress
60 does not compress. Closes: #41733
61 * Also, made all extentions dh_compress skips be looked at case
63 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
65 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
69 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
76 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
82 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
88 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
91 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
95 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
101 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
107 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
110 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
111 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
112 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
113 I made some changes, though:
114 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
115 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
116 that is a clear violation of policy.
117 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
118 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
119 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
120 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
121 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
122 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
123 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
124 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
125 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
127 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
131 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
137 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
140 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
144 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
147 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
148 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
153 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
159 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
166 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
169 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
170 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
171 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
172 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
173 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
174 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
175 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
179 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
185 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
189 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
190 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
200 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
203 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
207 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
210 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
211 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
217 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
222 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
226 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
230 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
232 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
233 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
234 for the dependancies to be generated.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
238 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
241 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
245 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
248 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
249 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
250 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
255 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
258 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
259 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
263 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
269 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
275 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
278 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
282 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
288 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
290 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
291 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
292 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
293 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
294 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
295 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
296 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
297 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
298 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
299 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
300 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
301 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
302 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
306 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
308 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
309 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
310 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
312 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
313 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
314 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
315 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
316 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
317 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
319 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
320 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
324 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
327 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
331 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
338 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
340 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
341 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
346 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
349 for building debhelper.
350 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
354 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
361 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Fixed makefile commit target.
364 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
368 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
371 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
372 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
373 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
374 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
375 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
376 it's always available.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
380 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
383 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
384 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
385 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
389 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
392 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
393 modules. (Closes: #42171)
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
397 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
403 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
406 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
410 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
416 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
419 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
420 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
421 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
425 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
428 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
433 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
436 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
437 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
439 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
440 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
444 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
450 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
456 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
458 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
459 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
463 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
466 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
467 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
469 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
473 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
476 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
477 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
478 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
482 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
485 things if CDPATH is set.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
489 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
495 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
498 seems to make sense for the transition.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
502 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
505 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
510 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
513 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
514 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
518 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
521 that version. (Closes: #40589)
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
525 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
527 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
528 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
529 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
530 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
531 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
535 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
541 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
544 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
545 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
546 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
547 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
548 * debhelper.1: documented this.
549 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
550 current compatability level is equal to that number.
551 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
552 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
553 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
558 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
560 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
561 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
562 * README: mention doc/v2
563 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
564 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
568 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
570 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
571 be using this script RSN.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
575 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
578 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
579 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
580 more than 1 init script.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
584 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
587 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
591 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
593 * Changed perl version detection.
594 * Changed call to find.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
598 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
601 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
603 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
608 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Really include dh_installpam.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
614 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
617 * Wrote man page for same.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
621 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
624 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
625 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
630 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
637 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
640 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
641 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
642 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
647 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
650 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
651 well. (Closes: 38900)
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
655 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
658 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
659 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
663 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
669 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
676 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
682 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
684 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
685 help from Julian Gilbey.
686 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
687 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
688 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
689 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
690 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
691 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
692 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
697 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
703 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
705 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
710 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
716 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
722 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
725 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
729 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
732 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
736 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
739 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
743 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
749 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
752 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
756 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
758 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
762 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
764 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
768 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
771 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
772 may be deleted. (#35845)
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
776 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Various man page enhancements.
779 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
784 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
787 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
788 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
792 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
795 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
796 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
797 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
799 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
800 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
805 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
811 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Another very minor typo fix.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
817 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Very minor typo fix.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
823 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
826 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
827 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
831 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
837 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
839 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
840 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
841 variables properly (#34850).
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
845 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
847 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
851 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
854 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
855 (automatically generated by build process).
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
859 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
861 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
865 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
868 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
869 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
871 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
875 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
878 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
882 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
884 * README: minor typo fix.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
888 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
891 leave it at that. :-)
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
895 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
901 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
907 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
910 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
911 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
912 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
916 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
919 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
923 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
926 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
930 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
933 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
934 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
935 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
936 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
940 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
943 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
944 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
945 Craig Small for spotting this.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
949 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
952 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
953 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
957 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
963 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
966 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
970 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
972 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
973 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
974 working on the last version of debhelper.
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
978 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
985 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
987 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
991 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
994 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
998 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1001 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1002 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1003 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1004 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1008 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1011 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1012 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1013 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1014 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1016 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1017 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1019 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1024 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1030 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1036 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1039 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1040 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1041 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1042 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1043 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1044 suidregister actually supports it.
1045 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1046 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1050 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1057 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1060 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1061 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1062 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1063 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1064 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1065 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1066 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1070 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1072 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1073 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1077 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1080 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1081 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1082 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1083 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1087 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1090 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1092 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1093 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1094 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1095 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1096 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1097 effect, either. (#30118)
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1101 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1107 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1110 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1111 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1115 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1121 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1124 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1125 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1126 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1127 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1131 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1134 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1135 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1139 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1145 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1148 packages, painlessly.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1152 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1158 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1164 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1170 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * The perl conversion is complete.
1174 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1176 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1177 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1178 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1183 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1186 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1187 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1188 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1192 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1195 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1197 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1199 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1200 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1204 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1207 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1208 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1212 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1218 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1221 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1222 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1223 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1224 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1225 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1229 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1232 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1233 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1234 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1235 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1239 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1242 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1246 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1249 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1250 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1251 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1252 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1253 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1254 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1255 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1256 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1260 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1266 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1269 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1270 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1271 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1276 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1279 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1283 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1286 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1290 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1293 sections of shared libraries.
1294 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1295 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1296 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1297 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1298 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1299 things you don't want them to.
1300 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1301 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1305 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1308 shared libraries. (#26414)
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1312 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1314 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1315 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1316 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1317 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1321 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1325 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1327 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1328 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1329 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1330 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1331 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1335 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1338 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1342 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1345 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1346 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1351 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1354 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1358 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1361 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1362 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1363 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1364 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1365 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1367 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1368 remove debian/files properly.
1369 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1370 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1371 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1372 * Removed bogus menu file.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1376 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1379 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1383 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1386 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1387 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1388 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1389 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1390 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1391 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1395 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1398 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1399 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1400 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1401 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1405 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1412 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1415 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1416 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1418 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1419 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1420 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1421 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1422 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1423 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1427 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1430 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1431 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1432 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1433 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1434 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1435 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1436 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1437 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1438 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1439 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1440 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1441 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1442 passed any switches.
1443 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1447 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1450 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1451 at all for a long while.
1452 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1453 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1454 large chunks in the process.
1455 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1456 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1457 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1462 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1465 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1467 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1472 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1475 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1476 that don't always have the same files in them.
1477 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1478 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1479 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1483 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1487 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1488 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1489 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1490 updating 27 man pages.
1491 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1492 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1493 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1494 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1495 programs act on. (#25247)
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1499 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1503 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1504 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1505 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1506 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1507 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1508 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1513 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1520 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1527 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1530 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1534 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1540 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1543 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1544 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1545 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1546 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1547 package by accident.
1548 * Is version 1.0 next?
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1552 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1555 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1556 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1560 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1563 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1564 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1565 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1566 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1567 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1569 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1574 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1577 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1578 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1582 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1585 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1589 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1592 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1593 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1598 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1604 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1607 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1608 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1613 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1619 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1622 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1623 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1624 past week. Thanks, guys!
1626 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1627 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1628 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1629 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1630 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1631 would do in the same situation.
1632 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1633 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1635 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1637 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1638 permissions changed.
1639 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1640 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1641 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1642 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1643 files are treated identically.
1644 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1645 * Minor man page fixes.
1646 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1647 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1648 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1652 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1655 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1656 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1657 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1658 use -X multiple times, too.
1659 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1660 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1664 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1667 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1668 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1672 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1675 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1679 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1682 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1683 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1684 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1685 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1686 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1687 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1688 shape if you're starting a new package.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1692 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1695 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1699 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1702 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1703 because of missing symlinks.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1707 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1713 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1716 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1717 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1718 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1719 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1720 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1722 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1723 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1727 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1729 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1730 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1731 to be changed after the fact :-)
1732 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1736 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1739 no version string after the -V.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1743 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1745 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1746 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1751 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1754 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1758 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1761 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1762 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1763 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1764 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1765 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1766 I always welcome corrections!
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1770 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1776 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1779 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1780 * Documented this new switch.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1784 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1787 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1788 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1789 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1790 no packages use the old behavior.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1794 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1797 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1798 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1802 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1805 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1809 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1815 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1818 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1822 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1825 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1826 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1827 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1831 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1837 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1840 into the source package by accident.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1844 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1847 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1848 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1849 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1850 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1851 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1852 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1857 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1861 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1862 inspired to implement some of it.
1863 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1867 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1870 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1874 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1877 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1878 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1882 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1885 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1886 have done.) (#17598)
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1890 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1896 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1902 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1905 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1909 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1912 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1913 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1917 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1920 argument processor in perl.
1921 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1922 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1923 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1924 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1928 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1931 type directories. (#16933)
1932 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1933 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1934 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1935 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1936 are supported. (#16935)
1937 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1942 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1945 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1949 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1953 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1954 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1955 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1956 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1957 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1958 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1962 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1965 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1966 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1968 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1969 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1970 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1971 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1972 a given package, or -i or -a.
1973 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1974 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1975 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1976 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1977 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1978 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1979 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1980 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1981 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1983 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1984 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1985 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1989 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1992 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1993 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1998 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2001 does not have a section.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2005 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2008 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2009 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2010 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2014 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Fixed typo #16215.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2020 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2023 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2024 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2025 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2026 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2027 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2032 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2035 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2036 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2037 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2042 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2048 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2054 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2057 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2058 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2059 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2060 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2061 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2062 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2066 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2072 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2075 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2079 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2082 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2083 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2084 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2088 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2091 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2095 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2101 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2104 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2108 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2111 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2115 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2121 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2124 postinst, postrm, etc.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2128 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2134 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2137 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2138 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2139 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2140 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2141 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2145 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2148 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2149 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2153 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2156 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2160 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2163 installing package files into.
2164 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2169 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2173 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2177 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2183 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2186 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2190 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2193 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2194 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2195 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2196 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2200 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2202 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2203 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2204 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2205 multiple binary packages.
2206 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2207 should rebuild them with this version.
2208 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2212 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2215 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2219 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2222 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2226 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2229 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2230 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2231 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2232 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2233 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2234 debian/README.debian.
2235 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2236 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2237 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2238 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2239 in a few situations.)
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2243 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2249 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2255 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2258 * Fixed several man pages.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2262 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2265 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2266 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2270 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2273 is ready for general use.
2274 * Added man pages for all commands.
2275 * Multiple binary package support.
2276 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2277 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2278 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2280 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2281 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2282 auto-installed as parameters.
2283 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2285 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2288 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2289 the package build directory it is to act on.
2290 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2291 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2292 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2296 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2298 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2299 ready to replace debstd.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400