1 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
5 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
6 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
7 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
11 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
17 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
20 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
24 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
31 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
34 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
35 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
36 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
41 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
48 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
54 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
56 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
57 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
58 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
59 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
60 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
61 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
62 notice until v2 is complete.
63 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
64 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
65 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
66 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
67 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
68 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
70 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
71 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
72 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
73 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
77 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
83 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
90 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
93 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
97 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
104 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
107 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
108 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
109 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
110 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
115 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
118 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
119 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
120 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
125 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
128 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
129 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
133 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
135 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
136 just skip files that end in -\d+.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
140 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
143 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
147 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
154 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
156 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
157 depend on the build and install targets.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
161 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
164 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
168 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
175 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
181 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
187 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
190 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
191 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
192 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
193 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
194 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
195 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
197 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
198 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
199 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
200 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
201 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
202 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
203 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
207 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
213 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
219 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
222 right place. Closes: #55065
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
226 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
233 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Make all examples rules files executable.
236 * Copyright date updates.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
240 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
243 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
248 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
254 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
261 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
267 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
273 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
279 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
282 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
283 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
284 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
285 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
286 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
287 bits until all files have been registered.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
291 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_installmanpages:
294 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
295 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
296 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
297 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
298 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
299 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
300 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
301 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
302 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
303 otherwise change the result at all.
305 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
306 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
307 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
308 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
309 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
314 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
320 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
323 act on files that don't exist.
324 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
325 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
326 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
328 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
329 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
330 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
331 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
335 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
341 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
347 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
350 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
354 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
357 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
359 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
360 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
361 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
365 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
368 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
369 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
370 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
371 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
372 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
373 does not compress. Closes: #41733
374 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
376 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
378 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
382 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
389 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
395 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
401 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
404 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
408 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
414 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
420 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
423 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
424 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
425 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
426 I made some changes, though:
427 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
428 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
429 that is a clear violation of policy.
430 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
431 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
432 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
433 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
434 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
435 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
436 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
437 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
438 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
440 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
444 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
450 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
453 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
457 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
460 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
461 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
466 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
472 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
479 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
482 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
483 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
484 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
485 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
486 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
487 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
488 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
492 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
502 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
503 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
507 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
513 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
516 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
520 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
523 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
524 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
528 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
530 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
535 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
539 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
543 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
545 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
546 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
547 for the dependancies to be generated.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
551 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
554 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
558 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
561 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
562 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
563 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
568 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
571 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
572 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
576 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
582 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
588 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
591 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
595 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
601 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
603 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
604 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
605 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
606 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
607 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
608 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
609 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
610 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
611 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
612 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
613 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
614 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
615 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
619 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
621 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
622 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
623 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
625 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
626 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
627 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
628 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
629 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
630 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
632 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
633 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
637 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
640 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
644 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
651 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
653 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
654 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
659 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
662 for building debhelper.
663 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
667 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
674 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Fixed makefile commit target.
677 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
681 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
684 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
685 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
686 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
687 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
688 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
689 it's always available.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
693 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
696 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
697 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
698 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
702 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
705 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
706 modules. (Closes: #42171)
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
710 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
716 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
719 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
723 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
729 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
732 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
733 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
734 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
738 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
741 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
746 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
749 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
750 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
752 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
753 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
757 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
763 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
769 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
771 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
772 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
776 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
779 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
780 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
782 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
789 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
790 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
791 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
795 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
798 things if CDPATH is set.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
802 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
811 seems to make sense for the transition.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
815 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
818 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
826 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
827 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
831 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
834 that version. (Closes: #40589)
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
840 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
841 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
842 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
843 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
844 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
848 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
854 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
857 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
858 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
859 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
860 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
861 * debhelper.1: documented this.
862 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
863 current compatability level is equal to that number.
864 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
865 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
866 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
871 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
873 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
874 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
875 * README: mention doc/v2
876 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
877 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
881 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
883 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
884 be using this script RSN.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
888 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
891 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
892 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
893 more than 1 init script.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
897 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
900 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
904 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Changed perl version detection.
907 * Changed call to find.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
911 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
914 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
916 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
921 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Really include dh_installpam.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
927 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
930 * Wrote man page for same.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
934 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
937 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
938 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
943 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
950 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
953 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
954 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
955 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
960 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
963 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
964 well. (Closes: 38900)
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
968 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
971 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
972 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
976 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
982 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
989 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
995 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
997 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
998 help from Julian Gilbey.
999 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1000 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1001 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1002 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1003 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1004 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1005 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1010 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1016 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1023 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1029 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1035 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1038 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1042 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1045 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1049 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1052 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1056 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1062 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1065 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1069 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1075 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1081 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1084 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1085 may be deleted. (#35845)
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1089 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Various man page enhancements.
1092 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1097 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1100 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1101 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1105 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1108 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1109 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1110 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1112 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1113 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1118 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1124 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Another very minor typo fix.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1130 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Very minor typo fix.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1136 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1139 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1140 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1144 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1150 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1153 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1154 variables properly (#34850).
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1158 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1164 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1167 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1168 (automatically generated by build process).
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1172 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1174 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1178 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1181 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1182 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1184 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1188 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1191 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1195 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * README: minor typo fix.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1201 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1204 leave it at that. :-)
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1208 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1214 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1220 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1223 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1224 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1225 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1229 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1232 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1236 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1239 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1243 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1246 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1247 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1248 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1249 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1253 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1256 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1257 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1258 Craig Small for spotting this.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1262 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1265 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1266 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1270 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1276 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1279 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1283 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1285 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1286 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1287 working on the last version of debhelper.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1291 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1294 being made. (#23255)
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1298 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1304 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1307 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1311 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1314 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1315 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1316 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1317 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1321 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1324 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1325 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1326 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1327 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1329 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1330 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1332 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1337 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1343 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1349 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1352 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1353 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1354 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1355 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1356 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1357 suidregister actually supports it.
1358 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1359 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1363 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1370 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1373 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1374 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1375 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1376 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1377 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1378 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1379 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1383 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1385 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1386 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1390 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1393 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1394 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1395 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1396 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1400 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1403 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1405 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1406 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1407 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1408 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1409 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1410 effect, either. (#30118)
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1414 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1420 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1423 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1424 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1428 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1434 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1437 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1438 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1439 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1440 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1444 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1447 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1448 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1452 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1458 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1461 packages, painlessly.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1465 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1471 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1477 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1483 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * The perl conversion is complete.
1487 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1489 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1490 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1491 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1496 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1499 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1500 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1501 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1505 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1508 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1510 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1512 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1513 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1517 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1520 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1521 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1525 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1531 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1534 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1535 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1536 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1537 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1538 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1542 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1545 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1546 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1547 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1548 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1552 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1555 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1559 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1562 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1563 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1564 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1565 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1566 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1567 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1568 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1569 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1579 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1582 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1583 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1584 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1589 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1592 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1596 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1599 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1603 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1606 sections of shared libraries.
1607 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1608 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1609 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1610 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1611 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1612 things you don't want them to.
1613 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1614 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1618 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1621 shared libraries. (#26414)
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1625 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1627 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1628 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1629 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1630 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1634 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1638 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1640 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1641 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1642 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1643 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1644 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1648 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1651 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1655 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1658 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1659 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1664 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1667 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1671 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1674 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1675 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1676 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1677 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1678 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1680 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1681 remove debian/files properly.
1682 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1683 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1684 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1685 * Removed bogus menu file.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1689 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1692 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1696 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1699 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1700 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1701 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1702 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1703 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1704 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1708 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1711 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1712 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1713 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1714 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1718 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1725 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1728 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1729 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1731 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1732 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1733 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1734 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1735 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1736 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1740 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1743 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1744 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1745 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1746 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1747 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1748 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1749 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1750 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1751 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1752 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1753 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1754 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1755 passed any switches.
1756 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1760 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1763 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1764 at all for a long while.
1765 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1766 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1767 large chunks in the process.
1768 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1769 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1770 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1775 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1778 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1780 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1785 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1788 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1789 that don't always have the same files in them.
1790 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1791 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1792 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1796 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1800 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1801 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1802 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1803 updating 27 man pages.
1804 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1805 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1806 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1807 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1808 programs act on. (#25247)
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1812 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1816 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1817 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1818 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1819 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1820 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1821 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1826 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1833 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1840 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1843 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1847 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1853 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1856 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1857 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1858 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1859 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1860 package by accident.
1861 * Is version 1.0 next?
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1865 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1868 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1869 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1873 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1876 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1877 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1878 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1879 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1880 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1882 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1887 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1890 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1891 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1895 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1898 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1902 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1905 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1906 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1911 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1917 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1920 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1921 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1926 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1932 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1935 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1936 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1937 past week. Thanks, guys!
1939 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1940 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1941 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1942 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1943 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1944 would do in the same situation.
1945 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1946 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1948 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1950 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1951 permissions changed.
1952 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1953 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1954 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1955 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1956 files are treated identically.
1957 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1958 * Minor man page fixes.
1959 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1960 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1961 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1965 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1968 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1969 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1970 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1971 use -X multiple times, too.
1972 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1973 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1977 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1980 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1981 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1985 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1988 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1992 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1995 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1996 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1997 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1998 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1999 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2000 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2001 shape if you're starting a new package.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2005 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2008 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2012 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2015 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2016 because of missing symlinks.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2020 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2026 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2029 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2030 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2031 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2032 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2033 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2035 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2036 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2040 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2042 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2043 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2044 to be changed after the fact :-)
2045 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2049 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2052 no version string after the -V.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2056 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2058 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2059 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2064 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2067 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2071 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2074 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2075 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2076 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2077 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2078 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2079 I always welcome corrections!
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2083 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2089 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2092 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2093 * Documented this new switch.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2097 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2100 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2101 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2102 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2103 no packages use the old behavior.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2107 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2110 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2111 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2115 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2118 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2122 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2128 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2131 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2135 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2138 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2139 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2140 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2144 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2150 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2153 into the source package by accident.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2157 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2160 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2161 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2162 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2163 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2164 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2165 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2170 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2174 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2175 inspired to implement some of it.
2176 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2180 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2183 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2187 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2190 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2191 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2195 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2198 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2199 have done.) (#17598)
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2203 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2209 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2215 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2218 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2222 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2225 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2226 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2230 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2233 argument processor in perl.
2234 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2235 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2236 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2237 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2241 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2244 type directories. (#16933)
2245 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2246 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2247 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2248 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2249 are supported. (#16935)
2250 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2255 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2258 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2262 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2266 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2267 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2268 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2269 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2270 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2271 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2275 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2278 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2279 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2281 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2282 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2283 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2284 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2285 a given package, or -i or -a.
2286 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2287 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2288 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2289 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2290 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2291 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2292 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2293 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2294 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2296 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2297 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2298 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2302 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2305 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2306 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2311 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2314 does not have a section.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2318 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2321 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2322 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2323 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2327 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Fixed typo #16215.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2333 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2336 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2337 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2338 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2339 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2340 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2345 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2348 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2349 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2350 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2355 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2361 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2367 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2370 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2371 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2372 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2373 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2374 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2375 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2379 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2385 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2388 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2392 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2395 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2396 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2397 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2401 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2404 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2408 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2414 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2417 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2421 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2424 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2428 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2434 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2437 postinst, postrm, etc.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2441 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2447 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2450 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2451 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2452 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2453 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2454 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2458 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2461 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2462 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2466 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2469 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2473 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2476 installing package files into.
2477 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2482 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2486 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2490 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2496 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2499 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2503 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2506 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2507 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2508 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2509 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2513 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2515 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2516 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2517 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2518 multiple binary packages.
2519 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2520 should rebuild them with this version.
2521 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2525 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2528 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2532 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2535 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2539 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2542 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2543 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2544 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2545 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2546 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2547 debian/README.debian.
2548 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2549 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2550 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2551 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2552 in a few situations.)
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2556 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2562 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2568 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2571 * Fixed several man pages.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2575 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2578 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2579 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2583 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2586 is ready for general use.
2587 * Added man pages for all commands.
2588 * Multiple binary package support.
2589 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2590 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2591 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2593 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2594 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2595 auto-installed as parameters.
2596 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2598 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2601 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2602 the package build directory it is to act on.
2603 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2604 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2605 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2609 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2611 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2612 ready to replace debstd.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400