1 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
5 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
8 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
11 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
12 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
15 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
17 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
18 the TODO entry about it.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
22 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
29 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
32 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
33 prevent that. Closes: #73052
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
37 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Typo, Closes: #72932
40 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
41 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
42 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
43 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
47 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
53 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
60 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
63 (this appears to be logal).
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
67 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
70 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
71 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
72 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
73 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
77 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
83 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
85 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
86 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
87 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
88 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
89 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
93 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
99 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
102 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
106 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
113 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
116 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
117 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
118 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
123 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
130 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
136 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
138 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
139 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
140 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
141 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
142 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
143 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
144 notice until v2 is complete.
145 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
146 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
147 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
148 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
149 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
150 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
152 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
153 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
154 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
155 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
159 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
165 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
172 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
175 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
179 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
186 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
189 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
190 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
191 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
192 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
197 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
200 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
201 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
202 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
207 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
210 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
211 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
218 just skip files that end in -\d+.
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
222 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
225 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
229 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
236 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
238 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
239 depend on the build and install targets.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
243 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
246 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
250 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
257 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
263 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
269 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
272 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
273 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
274 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
275 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
276 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
277 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
279 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
280 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
281 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
282 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
283 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
284 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
285 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
289 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
295 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
301 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
304 right place. Closes: #55065
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
308 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
315 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Make all examples rules files executable.
318 * Copyright date updates.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
322 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
325 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
330 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
336 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
343 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
349 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
355 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
361 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
364 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
365 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
366 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
367 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
368 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
369 bits until all files have been registered.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
373 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_installmanpages:
376 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
377 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
378 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
379 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
380 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
381 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
382 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
383 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
384 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
385 otherwise change the result at all.
387 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
388 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
389 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
390 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
391 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
396 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
402 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
405 act on files that don't exist.
406 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
407 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
408 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
410 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
411 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
412 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
413 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
417 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
423 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
429 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
432 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
436 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
439 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
441 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
442 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
443 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
447 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
450 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
451 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
452 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
453 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
454 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
455 does not compress. Closes: #41733
456 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
458 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
460 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
464 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
471 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
477 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
483 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
486 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
490 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
496 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
502 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
505 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
506 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
507 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
508 I made some changes, though:
509 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
510 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
511 that is a clear violation of policy.
512 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
513 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
514 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
515 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
516 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
517 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
518 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
519 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
520 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
522 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
526 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
532 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
535 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
539 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
542 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
543 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
548 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
554 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
561 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
564 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
565 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
566 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
567 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
568 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
569 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
570 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
574 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
580 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
584 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
585 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
589 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
595 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
598 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
602 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
605 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
606 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
610 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
612 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
617 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
621 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
625 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
627 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
628 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
629 for the dependancies to be generated.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
633 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
636 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
640 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
643 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
644 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
645 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
650 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
653 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
654 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
658 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
664 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
670 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
673 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
677 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
683 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
685 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
686 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
687 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
688 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
689 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
690 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
691 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
692 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
693 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
694 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
695 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
696 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
697 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
701 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
703 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
704 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
705 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
707 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
708 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
709 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
710 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
711 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
712 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
714 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
715 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
719 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
722 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
726 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
733 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
735 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
736 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
741 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
744 for building debhelper.
745 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
749 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
756 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Fixed makefile commit target.
759 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
763 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
766 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
767 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
768 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
769 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
770 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
771 it's always available.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
775 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
778 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
779 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
780 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
784 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
787 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
788 modules. (Closes: #42171)
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
798 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
801 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
805 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
811 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
814 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
815 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
816 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
820 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
822 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
823 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
828 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
831 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
832 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
834 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
835 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
839 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
845 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
851 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
853 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
854 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
858 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
861 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
862 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
864 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
868 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
871 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
872 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
873 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
880 things if CDPATH is set.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
884 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
890 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
893 seems to make sense for the transition.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
897 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
900 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
905 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
908 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
909 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
913 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
916 that version. (Closes: #40589)
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
920 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
922 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
923 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
924 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
925 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
926 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
930 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
936 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
939 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
940 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
941 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
942 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
943 * debhelper.1: documented this.
944 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
945 current compatability level is equal to that number.
946 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
947 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
948 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
953 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
955 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
956 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
957 * README: mention doc/v2
958 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
959 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
963 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
965 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
966 be using this script RSN.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
970 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
973 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
974 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
975 more than 1 init script.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
979 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
982 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
986 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Changed perl version detection.
989 * Changed call to find.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
993 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
996 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
998 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1003 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Really include dh_installpam.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1009 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1012 * Wrote man page for same.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1016 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1019 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1020 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1025 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1032 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1035 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1036 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1037 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1038 x bit was being set!
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1042 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1045 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1046 well. (Closes: 38900)
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1050 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1053 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1054 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1058 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1064 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1071 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1077 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1080 help from Julian Gilbey.
1081 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1082 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1083 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1084 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1085 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1086 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1087 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1092 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1098 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1105 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1111 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1117 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1120 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1124 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1127 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1131 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1134 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1138 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1144 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1147 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1151 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1157 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1163 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1166 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1167 may be deleted. (#35845)
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1171 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Various man page enhancements.
1174 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1179 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1182 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1183 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1187 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1190 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1191 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1192 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1194 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1195 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1200 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1206 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Another very minor typo fix.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1212 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Very minor typo fix.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1218 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1221 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1222 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1226 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1232 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1235 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1236 variables properly (#34850).
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1240 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1246 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1249 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1250 (automatically generated by build process).
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1254 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1256 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1260 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1263 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1264 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1266 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1270 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1273 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1277 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * README: minor typo fix.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1283 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1286 leave it at that. :-)
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1290 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1296 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1302 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1305 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1306 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1307 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1311 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1314 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1318 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1321 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1325 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1328 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1329 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1330 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1331 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1335 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1338 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1339 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1340 Craig Small for spotting this.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1344 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1347 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1348 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1352 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1358 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1361 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1365 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1367 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1368 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1369 working on the last version of debhelper.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1373 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1376 being made. (#23255)
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1380 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1386 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1389 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1393 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1396 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1397 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1398 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1399 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1403 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1406 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1407 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1408 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1409 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1411 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1412 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1414 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1419 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1425 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1431 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1434 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1435 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1436 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1437 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1438 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1439 suidregister actually supports it.
1440 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1441 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1445 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1452 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1455 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1456 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1457 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1458 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1459 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1460 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1461 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1465 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1467 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1468 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1472 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1475 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1476 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1477 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1478 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1482 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1485 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1487 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1488 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1489 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1490 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1491 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1492 effect, either. (#30118)
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1496 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1502 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1505 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1506 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1510 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1516 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1519 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1520 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1521 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1522 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1526 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1529 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1530 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1534 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1540 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1543 packages, painlessly.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1547 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1553 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1559 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1565 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * The perl conversion is complete.
1569 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1571 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1572 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1573 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1578 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1581 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1582 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1583 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1587 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1590 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1592 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1594 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1595 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1599 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1602 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1603 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1607 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1613 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1616 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1617 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1618 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1619 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1620 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1624 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1627 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1628 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1629 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1630 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1634 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1637 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1641 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1644 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1645 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1646 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1647 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1648 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1649 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1650 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1651 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1655 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1664 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1665 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1666 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1671 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1674 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1678 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1681 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1685 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1688 sections of shared libraries.
1689 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1690 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1691 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1692 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1693 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1694 things you don't want them to.
1695 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1696 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1700 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1703 shared libraries. (#26414)
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1707 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1709 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1710 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1711 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1712 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1716 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1720 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1722 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1723 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1724 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1725 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1726 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1730 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1733 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1737 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1740 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1741 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1746 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1749 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1753 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1756 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1757 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1758 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1759 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1760 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1762 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1763 remove debian/files properly.
1764 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1765 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1766 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1767 * Removed bogus menu file.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1771 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1774 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1778 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1781 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1782 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1783 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1784 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1785 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1786 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1793 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1794 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1795 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1796 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1800 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1807 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1810 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1811 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1813 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1814 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1815 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1816 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1817 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1818 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1822 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1825 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1826 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1827 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1828 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1829 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1830 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1831 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1832 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1833 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1834 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1835 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1836 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1837 passed any switches.
1838 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1842 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1845 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1846 at all for a long while.
1847 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1848 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1849 large chunks in the process.
1850 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1851 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1852 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1857 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1860 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1862 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1867 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1870 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1871 that don't always have the same files in them.
1872 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1873 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1874 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1878 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1882 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1883 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1884 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1885 updating 27 man pages.
1886 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1887 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1888 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1889 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1890 programs act on. (#25247)
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1894 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1898 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1899 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1900 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1901 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1902 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1903 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1908 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1915 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1922 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1925 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1929 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1935 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1938 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1939 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1940 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1941 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1942 package by accident.
1943 * Is version 1.0 next?
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1947 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1950 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1951 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1955 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1958 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1959 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1960 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1961 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1962 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1964 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1969 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1972 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1973 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1977 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1980 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1984 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1987 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1988 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1993 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1999 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2002 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2003 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2008 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2014 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2017 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2018 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2019 past week. Thanks, guys!
2021 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2022 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2023 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2024 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2025 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2026 would do in the same situation.
2027 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2028 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2030 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2032 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2033 permissions changed.
2034 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2035 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2036 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2037 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2038 files are treated identically.
2039 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2040 * Minor man page fixes.
2041 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2042 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2043 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2047 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2050 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2051 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2052 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2053 use -X multiple times, too.
2054 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2055 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2059 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2062 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2063 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2067 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2070 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2074 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2077 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2078 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2079 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2080 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2081 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2082 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2083 shape if you're starting a new package.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2087 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2090 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2094 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2097 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2098 because of missing symlinks.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2102 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2108 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2111 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2112 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2113 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2114 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2115 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2117 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2118 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2122 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2124 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2125 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2126 to be changed after the fact :-)
2127 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2131 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2134 no version string after the -V.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2138 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2140 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2141 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2146 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2149 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2153 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2156 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2157 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2158 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2159 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2160 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2161 I always welcome corrections!
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2165 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2171 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2174 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2175 * Documented this new switch.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2179 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2182 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2183 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2184 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2185 no packages use the old behavior.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2189 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2192 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2193 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2197 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2200 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2204 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2210 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2213 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2217 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2220 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2221 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2222 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2226 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2232 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2235 into the source package by accident.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2239 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2242 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2243 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2244 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2245 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2246 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2247 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2252 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2256 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2257 inspired to implement some of it.
2258 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2262 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2265 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2269 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2272 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2273 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2277 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2280 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2281 have done.) (#17598)
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2285 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2291 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2297 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2300 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2304 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2307 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2308 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2312 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2315 argument processor in perl.
2316 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2317 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2318 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2319 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2323 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2326 type directories. (#16933)
2327 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2328 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2329 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2330 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2331 are supported. (#16935)
2332 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2337 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2340 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2344 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2348 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2349 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2350 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2351 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2352 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2353 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2357 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2360 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2361 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2363 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2364 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2365 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2366 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2367 a given package, or -i or -a.
2368 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2369 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2370 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2371 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2372 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2373 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2374 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2375 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2376 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2378 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2379 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2380 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2384 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2387 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2388 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2393 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2396 does not have a section.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2400 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2403 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2404 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2405 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2409 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Fixed typo #16215.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2415 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2418 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2419 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2420 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2421 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2422 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2427 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2430 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2431 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2432 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2437 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2443 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2449 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2452 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2453 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2454 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2455 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2456 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2457 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2461 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2467 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2470 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2474 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2477 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2478 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2479 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2483 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2486 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2490 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2496 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2499 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2503 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2506 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2510 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2516 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2519 postinst, postrm, etc.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2523 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2529 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2532 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2533 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2534 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2535 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2536 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2540 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2543 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2544 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2548 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2551 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2555 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2558 installing package files into.
2559 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2564 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2568 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2572 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2578 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2581 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2585 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2588 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2589 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2590 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2591 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2595 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2597 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2598 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2599 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2600 multiple binary packages.
2601 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2602 should rebuild them with this version.
2603 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2607 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2610 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2614 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2617 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2621 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2624 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2625 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2626 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2627 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2628 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2629 debian/README.debian.
2630 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2631 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2632 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2633 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2634 in a few situations.)
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2638 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2644 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2650 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2653 * Fixed several man pages.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2657 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2660 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2661 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2665 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2668 is ready for general use.
2669 * Added man pages for all commands.
2670 * Multiple binary package support.
2671 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2672 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2673 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2675 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2676 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2677 auto-installed as parameters.
2678 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2680 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2683 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2684 the package build directory it is to act on.
2685 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2686 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2687 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2691 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2693 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2694 ready to replace debstd.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400