1 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
5 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
6 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
7 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
8 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
12 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
15 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
20 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
23 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
24 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
25 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
26 backwards-compatability.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
30 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
32 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
33 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
34 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
35 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
36 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
37 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
38 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
40 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
41 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
42 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
44 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
46 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
47 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
48 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
49 should now be raised to severity important..
50 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
51 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
55 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
58 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
63 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Typo, Closes: #77441
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
69 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Completed the fix from the last version.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
75 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
81 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
83 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
88 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
91 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
92 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
93 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
94 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
98 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
104 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
106 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
107 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
108 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
109 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
110 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
111 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
112 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
117 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
120 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
124 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
130 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
133 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
138 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
141 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
142 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
143 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
144 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
148 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
152 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
155 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
158 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
159 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
162 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
164 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
165 the TODO entry about it.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
169 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
176 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
179 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
180 prevent that. Closes: #73052
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
184 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Typo, Closes: #72932
187 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
188 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
189 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
190 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
194 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
200 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
207 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
210 (this appears to be logal).
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
214 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
217 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
218 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
219 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
220 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
224 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
230 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
232 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
233 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
234 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
235 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
236 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
240 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
246 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
249 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
253 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
260 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
263 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
264 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
265 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
270 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
277 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
283 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
285 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
286 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
287 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
288 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
289 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
290 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
291 notice until v2 is complete.
292 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
293 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
294 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
295 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
296 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
297 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
299 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
300 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
301 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
302 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
306 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
312 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
319 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
322 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
326 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
333 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
336 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
337 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
338 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
339 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
344 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
347 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
348 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
349 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
354 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
357 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
358 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
362 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
365 just skip files that end in -\d+.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
369 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
372 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
376 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
383 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
385 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
386 depend on the build and install targets.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
390 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
393 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
397 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
404 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
410 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
416 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
419 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
420 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
421 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
422 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
423 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
424 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
426 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
427 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
428 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
429 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
430 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
431 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
432 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
436 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
442 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
448 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
451 right place. Closes: #55065
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
455 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
462 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Make all examples rules files executable.
465 * Copyright date updates.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
469 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
472 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
477 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
483 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
490 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
496 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
502 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
508 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
511 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
512 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
513 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
514 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
515 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
516 bits until all files have been registered.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
520 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_installmanpages:
523 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
524 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
525 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
526 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
527 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
528 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
529 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
530 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
531 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
532 otherwise change the result at all.
534 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
535 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
536 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
537 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
538 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
543 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
549 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
552 act on files that don't exist.
553 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
554 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
555 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
557 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
558 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
559 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
560 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
564 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
570 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
576 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
579 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
583 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
586 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
588 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
589 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
590 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
594 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
597 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
598 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
599 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
600 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
601 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
602 does not compress. Closes: #41733
603 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
605 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
607 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
611 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
618 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
624 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
630 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
633 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
637 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
652 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
653 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
654 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
655 I made some changes, though:
656 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
657 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
658 that is a clear violation of policy.
659 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
660 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
661 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
662 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
663 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
664 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
665 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
666 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
667 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
669 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
673 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
679 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
682 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
686 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
689 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
690 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
695 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
701 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
708 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
711 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
712 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
713 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
714 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
715 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
716 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
717 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
721 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
727 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
731 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
732 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
736 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
742 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
745 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
749 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
752 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
753 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
757 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
759 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
764 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
768 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
772 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
774 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
775 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
776 for the dependancies to be generated.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
780 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
783 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
787 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
790 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
791 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
792 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
797 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
800 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
801 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
805 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
811 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
817 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
820 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
824 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
830 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
832 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
833 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
834 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
835 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
836 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
837 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
838 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
839 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
840 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
841 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
842 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
843 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
844 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
848 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
850 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
851 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
852 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
854 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
855 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
856 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
857 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
858 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
859 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
861 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
862 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
866 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
869 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
873 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
880 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
882 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
883 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
888 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
891 for building debhelper.
892 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
896 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
903 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Fixed makefile commit target.
906 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
910 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
913 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
914 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
915 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
916 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
917 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
918 it's always available.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
922 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
925 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
926 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
927 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
931 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
934 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
935 modules. (Closes: #42171)
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
939 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
945 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
948 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
952 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
958 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
961 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
962 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
963 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
967 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
970 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
975 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
978 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
979 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
981 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
982 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
986 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
992 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
998 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1001 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1005 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1008 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1009 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1011 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1015 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1018 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1019 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1020 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1024 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1027 things if CDPATH is set.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1037 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1040 seems to make sense for the transition.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1044 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1047 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1052 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1055 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1056 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1063 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1070 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1071 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1072 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1073 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1077 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1083 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1086 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1087 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1088 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1089 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1090 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1091 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1092 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1093 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1094 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1095 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1100 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1103 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1104 * README: mention doc/v2
1105 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1106 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1110 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1112 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1113 be using this script RSN.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1117 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1120 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1121 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1122 more than 1 init script.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1126 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1129 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1133 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Changed perl version detection.
1136 * Changed call to find.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1140 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1143 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1145 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1150 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Really include dh_installpam.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1156 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1159 * Wrote man page for same.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1163 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1166 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1167 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1172 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1179 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1182 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1183 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1184 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1185 x bit was being set!
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1189 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1192 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1193 well. (Closes: 38900)
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1197 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1200 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1201 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1205 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1211 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1224 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1227 help from Julian Gilbey.
1228 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1229 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1230 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1231 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1232 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1233 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1234 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1239 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1245 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1252 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1258 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1264 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1267 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1271 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1274 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1278 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1281 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1285 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1291 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1294 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1298 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1304 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1310 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1313 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1314 may be deleted. (#35845)
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1318 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Various man page enhancements.
1321 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1326 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1329 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1330 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1334 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1337 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1338 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1339 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1341 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1342 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1347 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1353 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Another very minor typo fix.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1359 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Very minor typo fix.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1365 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1368 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1369 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1373 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1379 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1382 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1383 variables properly (#34850).
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1387 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1393 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1396 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1397 (automatically generated by build process).
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1401 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1403 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1407 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1410 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1411 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1413 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1417 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1420 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1424 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * README: minor typo fix.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1430 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1433 leave it at that. :-)
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1437 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1443 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1449 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1452 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1453 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1454 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1458 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1461 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1465 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1468 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1472 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1475 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1476 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1477 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1478 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1482 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1485 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1486 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1487 Craig Small for spotting this.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1491 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1494 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1495 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1499 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1505 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1508 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1512 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1514 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1515 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1516 working on the last version of debhelper.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1520 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1523 being made. (#23255)
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1527 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1533 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1536 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1540 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1543 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1544 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1545 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1546 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1550 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1553 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1554 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1555 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1556 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1558 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1559 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1561 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1566 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1572 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1578 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1581 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1582 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1583 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1584 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1585 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1586 suidregister actually supports it.
1587 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1588 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1592 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1599 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1602 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1603 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1604 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1605 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1606 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1607 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1608 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1612 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1614 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1615 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1619 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1622 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1623 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1624 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1625 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1629 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1632 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1634 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1635 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1636 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1637 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1638 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1639 effect, either. (#30118)
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1643 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1649 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1652 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1653 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1657 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1663 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1666 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1667 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1668 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1669 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1673 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1676 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1677 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1681 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1687 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1690 packages, painlessly.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1694 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1700 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1712 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * The perl conversion is complete.
1716 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1718 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1719 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1720 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1725 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1728 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1729 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1730 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1734 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1737 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1739 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1741 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1742 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1746 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1749 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1750 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1754 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1760 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1763 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1764 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1765 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1766 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1767 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1771 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1774 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1775 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1776 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1777 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1781 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1784 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1788 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1791 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1792 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1793 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1794 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1795 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1796 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1797 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1798 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1802 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1808 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1811 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1812 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1813 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1818 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1821 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1825 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1828 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1832 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1835 sections of shared libraries.
1836 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1837 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1838 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1839 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1840 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1841 things you don't want them to.
1842 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1843 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1847 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1850 shared libraries. (#26414)
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1854 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1856 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1857 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1858 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1859 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1863 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1867 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1869 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1870 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1871 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1872 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1873 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1877 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1880 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1884 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1887 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1888 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1893 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1896 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1900 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1903 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1904 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1905 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1906 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1907 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1909 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1910 remove debian/files properly.
1911 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1912 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1913 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1914 * Removed bogus menu file.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1918 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1921 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1925 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1928 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1929 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1930 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1931 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1932 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1933 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1937 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1940 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1941 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1942 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1943 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1947 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1954 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1957 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1958 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1960 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1961 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1962 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1963 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1964 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1965 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1969 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1972 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1973 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1974 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1975 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1976 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1977 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1978 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1979 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1980 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1981 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1982 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1983 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1984 passed any switches.
1985 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1989 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1992 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1993 at all for a long while.
1994 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1995 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1996 large chunks in the process.
1997 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1998 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1999 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2004 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2007 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2009 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2014 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2017 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2018 that don't always have the same files in them.
2019 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2020 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2021 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2025 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2029 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2030 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2031 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2032 updating 27 man pages.
2033 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2034 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2035 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2036 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2037 programs act on. (#25247)
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2041 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2045 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2046 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2047 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2048 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2049 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2050 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2055 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2062 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2069 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2072 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2076 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2082 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2085 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2086 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2087 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2088 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2089 package by accident.
2090 * Is version 1.0 next?
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2094 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2097 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2098 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2102 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2105 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2106 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2107 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2108 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2109 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2111 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2116 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2119 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2120 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2124 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2127 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2131 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2134 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2135 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2140 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2146 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2149 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2150 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2155 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2161 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2164 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2165 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2166 past week. Thanks, guys!
2168 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2169 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2170 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2171 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2172 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2173 would do in the same situation.
2174 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2175 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2177 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2179 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2180 permissions changed.
2181 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2182 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2183 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2184 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2185 files are treated identically.
2186 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2187 * Minor man page fixes.
2188 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2189 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2190 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2194 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2197 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2198 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2199 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2200 use -X multiple times, too.
2201 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2202 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2206 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2209 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2210 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2214 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2217 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2221 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2224 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2225 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2226 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2227 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2228 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2229 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2230 shape if you're starting a new package.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2234 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2237 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2241 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2244 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2245 because of missing symlinks.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2249 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2255 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2258 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2259 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2260 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2261 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2262 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2264 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2265 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2269 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2271 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2272 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2273 to be changed after the fact :-)
2274 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2278 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2281 no version string after the -V.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2285 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2287 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2288 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2293 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2296 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2300 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2303 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2304 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2305 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2306 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2307 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2308 I always welcome corrections!
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2312 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2318 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2321 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2322 * Documented this new switch.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2326 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2329 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2330 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2331 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2332 no packages use the old behavior.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2336 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2339 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2340 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2344 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2347 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2351 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2357 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2360 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2364 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2367 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2368 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2369 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2373 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2379 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2382 into the source package by accident.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2386 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2389 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2390 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2391 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2392 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2393 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2394 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2399 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2403 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2404 inspired to implement some of it.
2405 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2409 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2412 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2416 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2419 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2420 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2424 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2427 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2428 have done.) (#17598)
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2432 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2438 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2444 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2447 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2451 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2454 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2455 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2459 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2462 argument processor in perl.
2463 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2464 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2465 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2466 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2470 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2473 type directories. (#16933)
2474 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2475 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2476 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2477 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2478 are supported. (#16935)
2479 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2484 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2487 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2491 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2495 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2496 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2497 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2498 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2499 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2500 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2504 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2507 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2508 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2510 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2511 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2512 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2513 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2514 a given package, or -i or -a.
2515 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2516 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2517 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2518 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2519 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2520 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2521 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2522 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2523 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2525 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2526 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2527 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2531 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2534 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2535 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2540 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2543 does not have a section.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2547 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2550 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2551 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2552 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2556 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Fixed typo #16215.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2562 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2565 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2566 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2567 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2568 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2569 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2574 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2577 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2578 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2579 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2584 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2590 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2596 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2599 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2600 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2601 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2602 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2603 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2604 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2608 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2614 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2617 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2621 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2624 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2625 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2626 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2630 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2633 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2637 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2643 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2646 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2650 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2653 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2657 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2663 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2666 postinst, postrm, etc.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2670 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2676 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2679 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2680 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2681 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2682 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2683 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2687 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2690 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2691 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2695 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2698 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2702 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2705 installing package files into.
2706 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2711 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2715 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2719 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2725 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2728 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2732 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2735 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2736 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2737 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2738 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2742 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2744 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2745 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2746 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2747 multiple binary packages.
2748 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2749 should rebuild them with this version.
2750 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2754 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2757 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2761 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2764 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2768 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2771 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2772 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2773 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2774 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2775 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2776 debian/README.debian.
2777 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2778 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2779 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2780 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2781 in a few situations.)
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2785 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2791 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2797 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2800 * Fixed several man pages.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2804 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2807 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2808 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2812 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2815 is ready for general use.
2816 * Added man pages for all commands.
2817 * Multiple binary package support.
2818 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2819 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2820 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2822 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2823 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2824 auto-installed as parameters.
2825 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2827 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2830 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2831 the package build directory it is to act on.
2832 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2833 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2834 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2838 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2840 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2841 ready to replace debstd.
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400