1 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
7 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
9 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
10 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
11 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
12 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
13 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
14 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
15 notice until v2 is complete.
16 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
17 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
18 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
19 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
20 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
21 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
23 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
24 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
25 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
26 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
30 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
36 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
43 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
46 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
50 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
57 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
60 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
61 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
62 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
63 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
68 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
71 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
72 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
73 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
78 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
81 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
82 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
86 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
89 just skip files that end in -\d+.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
93 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
96 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
100 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
107 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
109 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
110 depend on the build and install targets.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
114 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
117 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
121 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
128 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
134 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
140 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
143 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
144 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
145 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
146 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
147 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
148 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
150 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
151 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
152 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
153 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
154 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
155 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
156 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
160 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
166 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
172 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
175 right place. Closes: #55065
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
179 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
186 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Make all examples rules files executable.
189 * Copyright date updates.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
193 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
196 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
201 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
207 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
214 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
220 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
226 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
232 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
235 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
236 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
237 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
238 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
239 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
240 bits until all files have been registered.
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
244 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_installmanpages:
247 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
248 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
249 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
250 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
251 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
252 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
253 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
254 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
255 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
256 otherwise change the result at all.
258 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
259 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
260 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
261 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
262 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
267 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
273 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
276 act on files that don't exist.
277 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
278 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
279 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
281 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
282 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
283 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
284 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
288 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
294 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
300 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
303 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
307 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
310 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
312 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
313 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
314 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
318 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
321 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
322 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
323 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
324 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
325 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
326 does not compress. Closes: #41733
327 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
329 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
331 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
335 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
342 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
348 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
354 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
357 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
361 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
367 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
373 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
376 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
377 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
378 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
379 I made some changes, though:
380 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
381 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
382 that is a clear violation of policy.
383 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
384 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
385 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
386 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
387 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
388 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
389 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
390 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
391 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
393 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
397 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
403 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
406 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
410 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
413 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
414 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
419 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
425 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
427 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
432 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
435 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
436 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
437 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
438 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
439 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
440 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
441 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
445 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
451 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
455 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
456 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
460 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
466 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
469 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
473 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
476 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
477 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
481 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
483 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
488 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
492 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
496 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
498 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
499 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
500 for the dependancies to be generated.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
504 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
507 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
511 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
514 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
515 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
516 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
521 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
524 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
525 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
529 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
535 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
541 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
544 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
548 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
554 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
556 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
557 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
558 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
559 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
560 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
561 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
562 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
563 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
564 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
565 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
566 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
567 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
568 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
572 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
574 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
575 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
576 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
578 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
579 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
580 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
581 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
582 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
583 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
585 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
586 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
590 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
593 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
597 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
604 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
606 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
607 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
612 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
615 for building debhelper.
616 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
620 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
627 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Fixed makefile commit target.
630 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
634 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
637 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
638 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
639 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
640 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
641 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
642 it's always available.
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
646 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
649 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
650 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
651 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
655 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
658 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
659 modules. (Closes: #42171)
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
663 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
669 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
672 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
676 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
682 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
685 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
686 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
687 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
691 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
694 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
699 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
702 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
703 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
705 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
706 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
710 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
716 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
722 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
724 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
725 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
729 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
732 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
733 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
735 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
739 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
742 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
743 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
744 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
748 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
751 things if CDPATH is set.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
755 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
761 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
764 seems to make sense for the transition.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
771 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
776 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
779 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
780 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
784 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
787 that version. (Closes: #40589)
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
791 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
793 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
794 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
795 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
796 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
797 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
807 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
810 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
811 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
812 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
813 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
814 * debhelper.1: documented this.
815 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
816 current compatability level is equal to that number.
817 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
818 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
819 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
824 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
826 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
827 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
828 * README: mention doc/v2
829 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
830 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
834 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
836 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
837 be using this script RSN.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
841 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
844 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
845 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
846 more than 1 init script.
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
850 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
853 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
857 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Changed perl version detection.
860 * Changed call to find.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
864 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
867 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
869 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
874 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Really include dh_installpam.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
880 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
883 * Wrote man page for same.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
887 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
890 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
891 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
896 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
903 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
906 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
907 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
908 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
913 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
916 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
917 well. (Closes: 38900)
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
921 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
924 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
925 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
929 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
935 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
942 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
948 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
950 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
951 help from Julian Gilbey.
952 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
953 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
954 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
955 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
956 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
957 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
958 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
963 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
969 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
971 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
976 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
982 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
988 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
991 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
995 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
998 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1002 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1005 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1009 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1015 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1018 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1022 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1028 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1034 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1037 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1038 may be deleted. (#35845)
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1042 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Various man page enhancements.
1045 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1050 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1053 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1054 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1058 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1061 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1062 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1063 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1065 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1066 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1071 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1077 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Another very minor typo fix.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1083 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Very minor typo fix.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1089 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1092 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1093 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1097 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1103 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1106 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1107 variables properly (#34850).
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1111 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1117 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1120 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1121 (automatically generated by build process).
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1125 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1127 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1131 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1134 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1135 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1137 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1141 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1144 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1148 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * README: minor typo fix.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1154 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1157 leave it at that. :-)
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1161 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1167 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1173 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1176 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1177 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1178 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1182 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1185 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1189 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1192 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1196 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1199 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1200 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1201 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1202 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1206 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1209 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1210 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1211 Craig Small for spotting this.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1215 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1218 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1219 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1223 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1229 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1232 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1236 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1238 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1239 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1240 working on the last version of debhelper.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1244 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1247 being made. (#23255)
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1251 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1257 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1260 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1264 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1267 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1268 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1269 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1270 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1274 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1277 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1278 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1279 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1280 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1282 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1283 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1285 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1290 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1296 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1302 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1305 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1306 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1307 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1308 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1309 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1310 suidregister actually supports it.
1311 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1312 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1316 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1323 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1326 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1327 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1328 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1329 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1330 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1331 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1332 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1336 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1338 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1339 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1343 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1346 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1347 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1348 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1349 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1353 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1356 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1358 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1359 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1360 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1361 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1362 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1363 effect, either. (#30118)
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1367 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1373 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1376 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1377 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1381 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1387 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1390 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1391 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1392 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1393 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1397 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1400 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1401 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1405 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1411 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1414 packages, painlessly.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1418 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1424 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1430 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1436 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * The perl conversion is complete.
1440 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1442 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1443 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1444 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1449 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1452 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1453 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1454 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1458 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1461 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1463 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1465 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1466 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1470 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1473 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1474 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1478 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1484 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1487 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1488 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1489 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1490 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1491 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1495 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1498 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1499 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1500 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1501 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1505 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1508 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1512 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1515 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1516 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1517 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1518 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1519 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1520 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1521 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1522 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1526 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1532 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1535 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1536 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1537 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1542 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1545 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1549 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1552 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1556 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1559 sections of shared libraries.
1560 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1561 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1562 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1563 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1564 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1565 things you don't want them to.
1566 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1567 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1571 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1574 shared libraries. (#26414)
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1578 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1580 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1581 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1582 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1583 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1587 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1591 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1593 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1594 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1595 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1596 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1597 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1601 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1604 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1608 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1611 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1612 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1617 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1620 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1624 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1627 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1628 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1629 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1630 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1631 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1633 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1634 remove debian/files properly.
1635 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1636 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1637 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1638 * Removed bogus menu file.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1642 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1645 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1649 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1652 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1653 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1654 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1655 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1656 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1657 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1664 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1665 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1666 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1667 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1671 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1678 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1681 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1682 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1684 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1685 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1686 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1687 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1688 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1689 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1693 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1696 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1697 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1698 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1699 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1700 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1701 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1702 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1703 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1704 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1705 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1706 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1707 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1708 passed any switches.
1709 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1713 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1716 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1717 at all for a long while.
1718 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1719 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1720 large chunks in the process.
1721 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1722 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1723 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1728 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1731 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1733 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1738 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1741 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1742 that don't always have the same files in them.
1743 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1744 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1745 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1749 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1753 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1754 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1755 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1756 updating 27 man pages.
1757 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1758 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1759 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1760 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1761 programs act on. (#25247)
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1765 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1769 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1770 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1771 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1772 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1773 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1774 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1779 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1786 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1793 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1796 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1800 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1806 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1809 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1810 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1811 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1812 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1813 package by accident.
1814 * Is version 1.0 next?
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1818 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1821 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1822 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1826 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1829 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1830 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1831 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1832 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1833 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1835 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1840 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1843 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1844 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1848 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1851 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1855 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1858 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1859 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1864 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1870 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1873 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1874 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1879 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1885 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1888 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1889 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1890 past week. Thanks, guys!
1892 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1893 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1894 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1895 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1896 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1897 would do in the same situation.
1898 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1899 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1901 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1903 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1904 permissions changed.
1905 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1906 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1907 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1908 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1909 files are treated identically.
1910 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1911 * Minor man page fixes.
1912 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1913 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1914 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1918 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1921 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1922 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1923 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1924 use -X multiple times, too.
1925 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1926 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1930 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1933 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1934 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1938 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1941 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1945 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1948 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1949 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1950 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1951 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1952 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1953 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1954 shape if you're starting a new package.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1958 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1961 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1965 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1968 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1969 because of missing symlinks.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1973 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1979 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1982 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1983 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1984 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1985 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1986 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1988 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1989 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1993 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1995 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1996 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1997 to be changed after the fact :-)
1998 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2002 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2005 no version string after the -V.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2009 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2011 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2012 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2017 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2020 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2024 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2027 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2028 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2029 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2030 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2031 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2032 I always welcome corrections!
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2036 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2042 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2045 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2046 * Documented this new switch.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2050 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2053 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2054 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2055 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2056 no packages use the old behavior.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2060 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2063 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2064 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2068 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2071 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2075 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2081 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2084 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2088 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2091 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2092 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2093 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2097 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2103 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2106 into the source package by accident.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2110 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2113 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2114 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2115 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2116 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2117 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2118 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2123 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2127 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2128 inspired to implement some of it.
2129 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2133 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2136 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2140 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2143 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2144 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2148 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2151 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2152 have done.) (#17598)
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2156 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2162 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2168 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2171 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2175 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2178 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2179 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2183 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2186 argument processor in perl.
2187 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2188 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2189 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2190 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2194 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2197 type directories. (#16933)
2198 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2199 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2200 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2201 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2202 are supported. (#16935)
2203 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2208 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2211 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2215 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2219 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2220 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2221 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2222 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2223 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2224 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2228 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2231 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2232 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2234 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2235 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2236 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2237 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2238 a given package, or -i or -a.
2239 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2240 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2241 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2242 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2243 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2244 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2245 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2246 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2247 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2249 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2250 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2251 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2255 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2258 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2259 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2264 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2267 does not have a section.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2271 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2274 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2275 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2276 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2280 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Fixed typo #16215.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2286 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2289 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2290 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2291 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2292 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2293 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2298 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2301 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2302 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2303 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2308 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2314 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2320 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2323 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2324 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2325 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2326 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2327 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2328 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2332 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2338 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2341 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2345 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2348 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2349 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2350 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2354 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2357 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2361 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2367 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2370 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2374 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2377 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2381 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2387 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2390 postinst, postrm, etc.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2394 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2400 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2403 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2404 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2405 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2406 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2407 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2411 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2414 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2415 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2419 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2422 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2426 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2429 installing package files into.
2430 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2435 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2439 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2443 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2449 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2452 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2456 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2459 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2460 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2461 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2462 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2466 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2468 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2469 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2470 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2471 multiple binary packages.
2472 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2473 should rebuild them with this version.
2474 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2478 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2481 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2485 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2488 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2492 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2495 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2496 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2497 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2498 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2499 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2500 debian/README.debian.
2501 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2502 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2503 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2504 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2505 in a few situations.)
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2509 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2515 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2521 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2524 * Fixed several man pages.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2528 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2531 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2532 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2536 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2539 is ready for general use.
2540 * Added man pages for all commands.
2541 * Multiple binary package support.
2542 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2543 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2544 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2546 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2547 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2548 auto-installed as parameters.
2549 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2551 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2554 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2555 the package build directory it is to act on.
2556 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2557 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2558 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2562 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2564 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2565 ready to replace debstd.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400