1 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
5 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
6 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
7 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
8 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
9 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
10 but is mildly deprecated.
11 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
12 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
13 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
14 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
15 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
16 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
17 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
19 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
20 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
21 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
22 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
23 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
24 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
25 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
26 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
27 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
29 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
30 variable names, pod man pages).
31 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
32 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
33 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
35 * Tonnes of changes here and there to mark v3 as done. I don't have a
36 v4 planned at this time. All the big changes are done.
37 *** move man pages into programs as pod docs ***
38 *** build all my packages using new version, and ditching dh_installmanpages
39 mainly as a regression test..
40 *** fix aj's bug, sigh ***
41 *** dh_installinit should install defaults files ***
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
45 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
51 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
58 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
61 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
65 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
67 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
68 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
69 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
73 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
75 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
76 they were previously ignored.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
80 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
82 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
83 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
87 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
89 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
90 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
91 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
95 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
97 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
101 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
103 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
104 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
108 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
110 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
111 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
112 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
113 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
114 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
115 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
116 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
117 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
118 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
119 it is an obsolete program.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
123 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
125 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
129 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
133 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
135 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
139 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
141 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
143 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
145 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
149 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
155 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
157 * typo: Closes, #78567
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
161 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
167 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
173 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
175 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
176 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
177 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
178 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
179 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
180 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
184 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
187 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
192 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
195 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
196 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
197 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
198 backwards-compatability.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
202 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
204 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
205 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
206 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
207 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
208 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
209 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
210 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
212 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
213 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
214 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
216 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
218 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
219 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
220 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
221 should now be raised to severity important..
222 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
223 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
227 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
230 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
235 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Typo, Closes: #77441
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
241 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Completed the fix from the last version.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
247 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
253 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
255 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
260 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
263 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
264 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
265 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
266 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
270 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
276 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
279 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
280 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
281 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
282 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
283 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
284 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
289 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
292 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
296 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
302 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
305 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
310 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
313 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
314 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
315 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
316 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
320 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
324 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
327 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
330 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
331 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
334 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
336 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
337 the TODO entry about it.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
341 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
348 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
351 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
352 prevent that. Closes: #73052
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
356 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Typo, Closes: #72932
359 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
360 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
361 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
362 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
366 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
372 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
379 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
382 (this appears to be logal).
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
386 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
389 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
390 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
391 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
392 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
396 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
402 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
404 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
405 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
406 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
407 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
408 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
412 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
418 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
421 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
425 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
427 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
432 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
435 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
436 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
437 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
442 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
449 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
455 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
457 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
458 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
459 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
460 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
461 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
462 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
463 notice until v2 is complete.
464 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
465 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
466 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
467 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
468 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
469 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
471 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
472 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
473 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
474 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
478 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
484 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
494 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
508 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
509 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
510 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
511 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
516 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
519 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
520 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
521 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
526 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
529 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
530 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
534 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
537 just skip files that end in -\d+.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
541 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
544 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
548 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
555 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
557 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
558 depend on the build and install targets.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
562 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
565 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
569 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
576 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
582 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
588 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
591 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
592 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
593 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
594 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
595 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
596 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
598 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
599 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
600 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
601 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
602 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
603 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
604 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
608 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
614 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
620 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
623 right place. Closes: #55065
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
627 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
634 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Make all examples rules files executable.
637 * Copyright date updates.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
641 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
644 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
649 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
655 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
662 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
668 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
674 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
680 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
683 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
684 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
685 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
686 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
687 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
688 bits until all files have been registered.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
692 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_installmanpages:
695 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
696 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
697 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
698 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
699 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
700 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
701 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
702 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
703 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
704 otherwise change the result at all.
706 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
707 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
708 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
709 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
710 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
715 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
721 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
724 act on files that don't exist.
725 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
726 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
727 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
729 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
730 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
731 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
732 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
736 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
742 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
748 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
751 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
755 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
758 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
760 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
761 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
762 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
766 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
769 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
770 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
771 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
772 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
773 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
774 does not compress. Closes: #41733
775 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
777 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
779 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
783 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
790 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
796 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
802 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
805 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
809 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
815 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
821 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
824 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
825 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
826 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
827 I made some changes, though:
828 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
829 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
830 that is a clear violation of policy.
831 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
832 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
833 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
834 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
835 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
836 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
837 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
838 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
839 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
841 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
845 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
851 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
854 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
858 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
861 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
862 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
867 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
873 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
880 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
883 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
884 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
885 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
886 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
887 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
888 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
889 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
893 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
899 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
903 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
904 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
908 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
914 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
917 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
921 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
924 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
925 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
929 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
931 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
936 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
940 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
944 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
946 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
947 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
948 for the dependancies to be generated.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
952 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
955 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
959 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
962 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
963 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
964 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
969 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
972 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
973 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
983 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
989 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
992 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1002 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1005 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1006 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1007 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1008 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1009 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1010 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1011 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1012 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1013 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1014 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1015 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1016 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1020 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1023 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1024 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1026 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1027 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1028 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1029 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1030 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1031 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1033 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1034 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1038 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1041 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1045 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1052 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1055 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1063 for building debhelper.
1064 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1068 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1075 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1078 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1082 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1085 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1086 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1087 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1088 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1089 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1090 it's always available.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1094 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1097 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1098 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1099 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1103 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1106 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1107 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1111 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1117 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1120 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1124 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1133 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1134 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1135 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1139 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1142 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1147 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1150 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1151 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1153 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1154 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1158 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1164 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1170 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1173 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1177 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1180 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1181 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1183 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1187 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1190 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1191 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1192 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1196 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1199 things if CDPATH is set.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1203 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1212 seems to make sense for the transition.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1219 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1224 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1227 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1228 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1235 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1242 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1243 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1244 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1245 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1249 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1255 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1258 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1259 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1260 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1261 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1262 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1263 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1264 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1265 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1266 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1267 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1272 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1275 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1276 * README: mention doc/v2
1277 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1278 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1282 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1284 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1285 be using this script RSN.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1289 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1292 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1293 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1294 more than 1 init script.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1298 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1301 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1305 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Changed perl version detection.
1308 * Changed call to find.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1312 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1315 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1317 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1322 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Really include dh_installpam.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1328 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1331 * Wrote man page for same.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1335 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1338 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1339 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1344 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1351 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1354 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1355 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1356 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1357 x bit was being set!
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1361 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1364 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1365 well. (Closes: 38900)
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1369 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1372 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1373 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1377 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1383 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1390 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1396 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1399 help from Julian Gilbey.
1400 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1401 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1402 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1403 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1404 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1405 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1406 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1411 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1417 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1424 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1430 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1436 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1439 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1443 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1446 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1450 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1453 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1457 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1463 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1466 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1470 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1476 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1482 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1485 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1486 may be deleted. (#35845)
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1490 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Various man page enhancements.
1493 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1498 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1501 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1502 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1506 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1509 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1510 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1511 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1513 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1514 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1519 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1525 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Another very minor typo fix.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1531 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Very minor typo fix.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1537 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1540 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1541 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1545 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1551 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1554 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1555 variables properly (#34850).
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1559 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1565 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1568 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1569 (automatically generated by build process).
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1573 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1575 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1579 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1582 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1583 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1585 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1589 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1592 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1596 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * README: minor typo fix.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1602 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1605 leave it at that. :-)
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1609 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1615 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1621 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1624 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1625 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1626 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1630 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1633 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1637 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1640 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1644 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1647 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1648 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1649 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1650 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1654 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1657 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1658 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1659 Craig Small for spotting this.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1663 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1666 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1667 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1671 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1677 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1680 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1684 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1686 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1687 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1688 working on the last version of debhelper.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1692 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1695 being made. (#23255)
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1699 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1705 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1708 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1712 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1715 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1716 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1717 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1718 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1722 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1725 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1726 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1727 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1728 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1730 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1731 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1733 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1738 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1744 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1750 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1753 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1754 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1755 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1756 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1757 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1758 suidregister actually supports it.
1759 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1760 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1764 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1771 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1774 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1775 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1776 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1777 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1778 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1779 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1780 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1784 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1786 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1787 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1791 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1794 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1795 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1796 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1797 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1801 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1804 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1806 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1807 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1808 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1809 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1810 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1811 effect, either. (#30118)
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1815 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1821 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1824 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1825 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1829 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1835 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1838 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1839 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1840 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1841 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1845 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1848 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1849 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1853 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1859 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1862 packages, painlessly.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1866 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1872 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1878 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1884 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * The perl conversion is complete.
1888 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1890 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1891 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1892 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1897 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1900 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1901 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1902 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1906 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1909 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1911 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1913 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1914 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1918 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1921 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1922 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1926 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1932 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1935 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1936 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1937 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1938 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1939 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1943 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1946 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1947 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1948 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1949 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1953 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1956 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1960 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1963 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1964 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1965 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1966 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1967 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1968 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1969 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1970 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1974 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1980 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1983 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1984 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1985 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1990 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1993 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1997 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2000 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2004 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2007 sections of shared libraries.
2008 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2009 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2010 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2011 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2012 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2013 things you don't want them to.
2014 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2015 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2019 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2022 shared libraries. (#26414)
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2026 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2028 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2029 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2030 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2031 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2035 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2039 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2041 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2042 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2043 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2044 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2045 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2049 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2052 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2056 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2059 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2060 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2065 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2068 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2072 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2075 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2076 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2077 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2078 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2079 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2081 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2082 remove debian/files properly.
2083 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2084 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2085 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2086 * Removed bogus menu file.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2090 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2093 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2097 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2100 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2101 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2102 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2103 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2104 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2105 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2109 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2112 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2113 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2114 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2115 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2119 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2126 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2129 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2130 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2132 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2133 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2134 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2135 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2136 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2137 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2141 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2144 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2145 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2146 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2147 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2148 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2149 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2150 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2151 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2152 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2153 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2154 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2155 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2156 passed any switches.
2157 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2161 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2164 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2165 at all for a long while.
2166 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2167 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2168 large chunks in the process.
2169 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2170 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2171 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2176 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2179 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2181 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2186 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2189 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2190 that don't always have the same files in them.
2191 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2192 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2193 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2197 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2201 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2202 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2203 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2204 updating 27 man pages.
2205 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2206 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2207 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2208 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2209 programs act on. (#25247)
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2213 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2217 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2218 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2219 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2220 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2221 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2222 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2227 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2234 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2241 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2244 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2248 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2254 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2257 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2258 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2259 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2260 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2261 package by accident.
2262 * Is version 1.0 next?
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2266 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2269 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2270 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2274 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2277 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2278 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2279 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2280 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2281 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2283 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2288 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2291 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2292 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2296 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2299 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2303 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2306 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2307 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2312 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2318 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2321 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2322 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2327 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2333 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2336 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2337 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2338 past week. Thanks, guys!
2340 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2341 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2342 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2343 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2344 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2345 would do in the same situation.
2346 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2347 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2349 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2351 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2352 permissions changed.
2353 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2354 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2355 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2356 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2357 files are treated identically.
2358 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2359 * Minor man page fixes.
2360 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2361 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2362 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2366 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2369 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2370 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2371 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2372 use -X multiple times, too.
2373 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2374 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2378 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2381 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2382 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2386 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2389 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2393 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2396 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2397 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2398 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2399 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2400 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2401 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2402 shape if you're starting a new package.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2406 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2409 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2413 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2416 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2417 because of missing symlinks.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2421 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2427 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2430 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2431 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2432 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2433 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2434 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2436 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2437 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2441 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2443 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2444 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2445 to be changed after the fact :-)
2446 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2450 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2453 no version string after the -V.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2457 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2459 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2460 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2465 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2468 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2472 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2475 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2476 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2477 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2478 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2479 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2480 I always welcome corrections!
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2484 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2490 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2493 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2494 * Documented this new switch.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2498 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2501 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2502 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2503 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2504 no packages use the old behavior.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2508 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2511 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2512 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2516 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2519 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2523 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2529 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2532 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2536 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2539 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2540 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2541 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2545 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2551 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2554 into the source package by accident.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2558 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2561 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2562 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2563 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2564 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2565 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2566 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2571 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2575 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2576 inspired to implement some of it.
2577 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2581 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2584 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2588 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2591 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2592 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2596 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2599 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2600 have done.) (#17598)
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2604 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2610 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2616 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2619 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2623 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2626 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2627 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2631 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2634 argument processor in perl.
2635 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2636 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2637 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2638 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2642 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2645 type directories. (#16933)
2646 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2647 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2648 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2649 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2650 are supported. (#16935)
2651 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2656 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2659 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2663 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2667 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2668 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2669 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2670 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2671 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2672 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2676 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2679 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2680 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2682 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2683 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2684 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2685 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2686 a given package, or -i or -a.
2687 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2688 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2689 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2690 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2691 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2692 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2693 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2694 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2695 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2697 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2698 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2699 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2703 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2706 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2707 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2712 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2715 does not have a section.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2719 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2722 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2723 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2724 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2728 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Fixed typo #16215.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2734 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2737 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2738 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2739 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2740 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2741 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2746 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2749 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2750 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2751 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2756 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2762 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2768 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2771 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2772 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2773 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2774 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2775 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2776 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2780 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2786 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2789 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2793 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2796 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2797 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2798 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2802 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2805 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2809 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2815 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2818 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2822 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2825 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2829 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2835 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2838 postinst, postrm, etc.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2842 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2848 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2851 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2852 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2853 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2854 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2855 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2859 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2862 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2863 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2867 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2870 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2874 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2877 installing package files into.
2878 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2883 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2887 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2891 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2897 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2900 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2904 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2907 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2908 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2909 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2910 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2914 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2916 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2917 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2918 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2919 multiple binary packages.
2920 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2921 should rebuild them with this version.
2922 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2926 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2929 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2933 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2936 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2940 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2943 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2944 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2945 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2946 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2947 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2948 debian/README.debian.
2949 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2950 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2951 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2952 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2953 in a few situations.)
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2957 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2963 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2969 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2972 * Fixed several man pages.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2976 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2979 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2980 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2984 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2987 is ready for general use.
2988 * Added man pages for all commands.
2989 * Multiple binary package support.
2990 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2991 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2992 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2994 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2995 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2996 auto-installed as parameters.
2997 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2999 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3002 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3003 the package build directory it is to act on.
3004 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3005 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3006 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3010 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3012 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3013 ready to replace debstd.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400