1 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
8 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
11 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
12 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
13 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
14 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
15 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
16 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
17 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
21 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
27 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
31 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
32 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
36 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
42 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
45 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
49 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
52 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
53 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
57 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
59 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
64 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
68 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
72 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
74 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
75 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
76 for the dependancies to be generated.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
83 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
87 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
90 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
91 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
92 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
97 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
100 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
101 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
105 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
111 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
120 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
124 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
130 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
132 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
133 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
134 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
135 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
136 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
137 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
138 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
139 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
140 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
141 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
142 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
143 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
144 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
148 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
150 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
151 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
152 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
154 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
155 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
156 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
157 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
158 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
159 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
161 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
162 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
166 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
169 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
173 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
180 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
182 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
183 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
188 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
191 for building debhelper.
192 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
203 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Fixed makefile commit target.
206 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
210 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
213 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
214 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
215 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
216 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
217 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
218 it's always available.
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
222 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
225 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
226 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
227 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
231 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
234 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
235 modules. (Closes: #42171)
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
239 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
245 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
248 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
252 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
258 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
261 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
262 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
263 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
270 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
275 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
278 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
279 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
281 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
282 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
286 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
292 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
298 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
300 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
301 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
305 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
308 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
309 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
311 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
315 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
318 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
319 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
320 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
324 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
327 things if CDPATH is set.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
331 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
337 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
340 seems to make sense for the transition.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
344 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
347 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
352 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
355 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
356 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
360 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
363 that version. (Closes: #40589)
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
367 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
369 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
370 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
371 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
372 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
373 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
377 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
383 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
386 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
387 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
388 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
389 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
390 * debhelper.1: documented this.
391 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
392 current compatability level is equal to that number.
393 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
394 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
395 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
400 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
402 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
403 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
404 * README: mention doc/v2
405 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
406 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
410 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
412 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
413 be using this script RSN.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
417 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
420 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
421 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
422 more than 1 init script.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
426 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
429 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
433 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Changed perl version detection.
436 * Changed call to find.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
440 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
443 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
445 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
450 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Really include dh_installpam.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
456 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
459 * Wrote man page for same.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
463 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
466 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
467 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
472 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
479 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
482 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
483 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
484 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
489 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
492 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
493 well. (Closes: 38900)
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
497 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
500 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
501 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
505 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
511 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
518 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
524 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
526 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
527 help from Julian Gilbey.
528 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
529 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
530 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
531 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
532 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
533 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
534 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
539 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
545 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
547 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
552 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
558 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
564 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
567 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
571 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
574 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
578 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
581 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
585 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
591 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
594 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
598 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
600 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
604 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
606 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
610 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
613 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
614 may be deleted. (#35845)
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
618 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Various man page enhancements.
621 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
626 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
629 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
630 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
634 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
637 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
638 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
639 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
641 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
642 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
647 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
653 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Another very minor typo fix.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
659 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Very minor typo fix.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
665 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
668 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
669 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
673 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
679 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
681 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
682 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
683 variables properly (#34850).
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
687 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
689 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
693 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
696 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
697 (automatically generated by build process).
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
701 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
703 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
707 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
710 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
711 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
713 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
717 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
720 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
724 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
726 * README: minor typo fix.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
730 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
733 leave it at that. :-)
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
737 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
743 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
749 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
752 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
753 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
754 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
758 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
761 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
765 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
768 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
772 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
775 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
776 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
777 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
778 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
782 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
785 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
786 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
787 Craig Small for spotting this.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
791 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
794 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
795 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
799 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
805 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
808 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
812 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
814 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
815 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
816 working on the last version of debhelper.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
820 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
822 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
827 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
829 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
833 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
836 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
840 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
842 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
843 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
844 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
845 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
846 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
850 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
853 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
854 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
855 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
856 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
858 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
859 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
861 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
866 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
868 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
872 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
878 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
881 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
882 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
883 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
884 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
885 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
886 suidregister actually supports it.
887 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
888 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
892 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
899 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
902 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
903 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
904 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
905 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
906 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
907 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
908 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
912 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
914 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
915 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
919 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
922 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
923 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
924 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
925 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
929 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
932 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
934 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
935 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
936 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
937 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
938 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
939 effect, either. (#30118)
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
943 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
949 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
952 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
953 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
957 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Spelling and typo fixes.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
963 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
965 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
966 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
967 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
968 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
969 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
973 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
976 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
977 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
981 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
983 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
987 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
990 packages, painlessly.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
994 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1000 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1006 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1012 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * The perl conversion is complete.
1016 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1018 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1019 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1020 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1025 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1028 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1029 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1030 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1034 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1037 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1039 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1041 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1042 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1046 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1049 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1050 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1054 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1060 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1063 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1064 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1065 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1066 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1067 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1071 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1074 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1075 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1076 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1077 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1081 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1084 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1088 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1091 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1092 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1093 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1094 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1095 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1096 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1097 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1098 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1102 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1108 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1111 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1112 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1113 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1118 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1121 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1125 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1128 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1132 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1135 sections of shared libraries.
1136 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1137 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1138 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1139 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1140 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1141 things you don't want them to.
1142 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1143 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1147 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1150 shared libraries. (#26414)
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1154 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1156 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1157 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1158 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1159 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1163 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1167 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1169 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1170 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1171 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1172 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1173 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1177 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1180 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1184 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1187 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1188 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1193 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1196 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1200 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1203 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1204 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1205 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1206 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1207 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1209 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1210 remove debian/files properly.
1211 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1212 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1213 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1214 * Removed bogus menu file.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1221 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1225 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1228 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1229 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1230 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1231 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1232 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1233 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1237 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1240 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1241 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1242 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1243 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1247 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1254 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1257 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1258 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1260 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1261 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1262 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1263 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1264 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1265 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1269 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1272 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1273 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1274 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1275 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1276 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1277 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1278 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1279 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1280 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1281 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1282 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1283 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1284 passed any switches.
1285 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1289 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1292 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1293 at all for a long while.
1294 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1295 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1296 large chunks in the process.
1297 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1298 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1299 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1304 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1307 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1309 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1314 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1317 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1318 that don't always have the same files in them.
1319 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1320 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1321 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1325 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1329 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1330 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1331 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1332 updating 27 man pages.
1333 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1334 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1335 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1336 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1337 programs act on. (#25247)
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1341 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1345 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1346 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1347 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1348 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1349 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1350 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1355 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1362 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1369 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1372 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1376 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1382 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1385 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1386 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1387 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1388 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1389 package by accident.
1390 * Is version 1.0 next?
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1394 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1397 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1398 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1402 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1405 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1406 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1407 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1408 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1409 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1411 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1416 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1419 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1420 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1424 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1427 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1431 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1434 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1435 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1440 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1446 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1449 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1450 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1455 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1461 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1464 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1465 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1466 past week. Thanks, guys!
1468 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1469 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1470 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1471 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1472 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1473 would do in the same situation.
1474 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1475 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1477 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1479 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1480 permissions changed.
1481 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1482 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1483 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1484 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1485 files are treated identically.
1486 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1487 * Minor man page fixes.
1488 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1489 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1490 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1494 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1497 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1498 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1499 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1500 use -X multiple times, too.
1501 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1502 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1506 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1509 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1510 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1514 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1517 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1521 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1524 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1525 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1526 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1527 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1528 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1529 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1530 shape if you're starting a new package.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1534 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1537 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1541 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1544 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1545 because of missing symlinks.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1549 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1555 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1558 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1559 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1560 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1561 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1562 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1564 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1565 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1569 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1571 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1572 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1573 to be changed after the fact :-)
1574 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1578 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1581 no version string after the -V.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1585 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1587 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1588 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1593 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1596 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1600 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1603 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1604 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1605 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1606 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1607 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1608 I always welcome corrections!
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1612 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1618 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1621 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1622 * Documented this new switch.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1626 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1629 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1630 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1631 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1632 no packages use the old behavior.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1636 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1639 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1640 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1644 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1647 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1651 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1657 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1660 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1664 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1667 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1668 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1669 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1673 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1679 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1682 into the source package by accident.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1686 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1689 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1690 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1691 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1692 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1693 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1694 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1699 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1703 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1704 inspired to implement some of it.
1705 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1709 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1712 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1716 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1719 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1720 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1724 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1727 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1728 have done.) (#17598)
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1732 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1738 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1744 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1747 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1751 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1754 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1755 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1759 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1762 argument processor in perl.
1763 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1764 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1765 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1766 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1770 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1773 type directories. (#16933)
1774 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1775 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1776 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1777 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1778 are supported. (#16935)
1779 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1784 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1787 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1791 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1795 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1796 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1797 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1798 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1799 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1800 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1804 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1807 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1808 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1810 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1811 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1812 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1813 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1814 a given package, or -i or -a.
1815 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1816 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1817 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1818 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1819 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1820 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1821 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1822 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1823 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1825 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1826 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1827 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1831 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1834 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1835 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1840 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1843 does not have a section.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1847 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1850 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1851 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1852 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1856 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Fixed typo #16215.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1862 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1865 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1866 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1867 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1868 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1869 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1874 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1877 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1878 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1879 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1884 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1890 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1896 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1899 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1900 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1901 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1902 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1903 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1904 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1908 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1914 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1917 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1921 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1924 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1925 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1926 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1930 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1933 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1937 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1943 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1946 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1950 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1953 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1957 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1963 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1966 postinst, postrm, etc.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1970 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1976 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1979 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1980 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1981 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1982 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1983 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1987 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1990 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1991 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1995 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1998 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2002 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2005 installing package files into.
2006 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2011 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2015 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2019 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2025 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2028 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2032 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2035 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2036 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2037 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2038 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2042 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2044 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2045 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2046 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2047 multiple binary packages.
2048 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2049 should rebuild them with this version.
2050 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2054 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2057 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2061 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2064 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2068 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2071 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2072 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2073 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2074 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2075 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2076 debian/README.debian.
2077 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2078 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2079 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2080 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2081 in a few situations.)
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2085 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2091 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2097 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2100 * Fixed several man pages.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2104 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2107 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2108 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2112 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2115 is ready for general use.
2116 * Added man pages for all commands.
2117 * Multiple binary package support.
2118 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2119 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2120 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2122 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2123 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2124 auto-installed as parameters.
2125 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2127 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2130 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2131 the package build directory it is to act on.
2132 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2133 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2134 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2138 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2140 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2141 ready to replace debstd.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400