1 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
7 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
13 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
19 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
21 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
22 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
23 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
24 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
25 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
26 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
30 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
33 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
38 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
41 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
42 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
43 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
44 backwards-compatability.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
48 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
50 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
51 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
52 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
53 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
54 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
55 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
56 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
58 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
59 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
60 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
62 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
64 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
65 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
66 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
67 should now be raised to severity important..
68 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
69 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
73 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
76 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
81 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Typo, Closes: #77441
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
87 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Completed the fix from the last version.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
93 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
99 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
101 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
106 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
109 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
110 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
111 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
112 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
116 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
122 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
125 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
126 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
127 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
128 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
129 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
130 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
135 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
138 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
142 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
148 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
151 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
156 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
159 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
160 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
161 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
162 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
166 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
170 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
173 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
176 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
177 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
180 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
182 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
183 the TODO entry about it.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
187 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
194 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
197 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
198 prevent that. Closes: #73052
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
202 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Typo, Closes: #72932
205 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
206 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
207 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
208 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
212 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
218 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
225 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
228 (this appears to be logal).
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
232 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
235 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
236 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
237 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
238 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
242 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
248 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
250 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
251 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
252 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
253 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
254 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
258 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
264 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
267 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
271 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
278 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
281 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
282 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
283 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
288 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
295 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
301 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
303 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
304 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
305 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
306 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
307 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
308 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
309 notice until v2 is complete.
310 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
311 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
312 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
313 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
314 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
315 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
317 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
318 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
319 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
320 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
324 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
330 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
337 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
340 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
344 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
351 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
354 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
355 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
356 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
357 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
362 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
365 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
366 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
367 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
372 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
375 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
376 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
380 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
383 just skip files that end in -\d+.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
387 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
390 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
394 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
396 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
401 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
403 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
404 depend on the build and install targets.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
408 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
411 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
415 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
422 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
428 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
434 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
437 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
438 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
439 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
440 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
441 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
442 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
444 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
445 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
446 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
447 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
448 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
449 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
450 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
454 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
460 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
466 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
469 right place. Closes: #55065
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
473 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
480 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Make all examples rules files executable.
483 * Copyright date updates.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
487 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
490 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
495 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
501 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
508 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
514 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
520 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
526 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
529 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
530 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
531 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
532 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
533 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
534 bits until all files have been registered.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
538 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installmanpages:
541 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
542 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
543 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
544 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
545 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
546 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
547 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
548 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
549 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
550 otherwise change the result at all.
552 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
553 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
554 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
555 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
556 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
561 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
567 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
570 act on files that don't exist.
571 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
572 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
573 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
575 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
576 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
577 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
578 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
582 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
588 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
594 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
596 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
597 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
601 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
604 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
606 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
607 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
608 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
612 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
615 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
616 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
617 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
618 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
619 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
620 does not compress. Closes: #41733
621 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
623 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
625 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
629 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
636 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
642 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
648 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
651 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
655 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
661 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
667 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
670 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
671 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
672 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
673 I made some changes, though:
674 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
675 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
676 that is a clear violation of policy.
677 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
678 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
679 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
680 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
681 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
682 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
683 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
684 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
685 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
687 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
691 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
697 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
700 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
704 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
707 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
708 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
713 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
719 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
726 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
729 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
730 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
731 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
732 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
733 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
734 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
735 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
739 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
745 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
749 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
750 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
754 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
760 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
763 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
767 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
770 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
771 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
775 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
777 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
782 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
786 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
790 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
792 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
793 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
794 for the dependancies to be generated.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
798 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
801 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
805 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
808 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
809 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
810 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
815 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
818 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
819 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
829 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
835 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
838 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
842 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
848 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
850 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
851 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
852 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
853 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
854 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
855 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
856 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
857 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
858 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
859 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
860 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
861 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
862 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
866 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
868 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
869 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
870 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
872 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
873 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
874 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
875 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
876 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
877 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
879 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
880 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
884 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
887 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
891 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
898 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
900 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
901 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
906 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
909 for building debhelper.
910 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
914 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
921 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Fixed makefile commit target.
924 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
928 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
931 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
932 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
933 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
934 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
935 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
936 it's always available.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
940 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
943 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
944 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
945 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
949 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
952 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
953 modules. (Closes: #42171)
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
957 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
963 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
966 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
970 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
976 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
979 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
980 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
981 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
985 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
988 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
993 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
996 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
997 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
999 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1000 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1004 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1010 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1016 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1019 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1023 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1026 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1027 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1029 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1033 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1036 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1037 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1038 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1042 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1045 things if CDPATH is set.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1049 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1055 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1058 seems to make sense for the transition.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1062 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1065 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1070 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1073 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1074 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1078 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1081 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1085 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1088 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1089 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1090 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1091 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1095 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1101 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1104 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1105 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1106 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1107 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1108 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1109 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1110 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1111 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1112 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1113 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1118 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1121 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1122 * README: mention doc/v2
1123 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1124 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1128 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1130 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1131 be using this script RSN.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1135 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1138 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1139 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1140 more than 1 init script.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1144 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1147 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1151 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Changed perl version detection.
1154 * Changed call to find.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1158 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1161 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1163 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1168 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Really include dh_installpam.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1174 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1177 * Wrote man page for same.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1181 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1184 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1185 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1190 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1197 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1200 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1201 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1202 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1203 x bit was being set!
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1207 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1210 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1211 well. (Closes: 38900)
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1215 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1218 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1219 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1223 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1229 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1236 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1242 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1245 help from Julian Gilbey.
1246 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1247 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1248 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1249 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1250 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1251 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1252 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1257 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1263 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1270 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1276 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1282 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1285 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1289 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1292 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1296 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1299 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1303 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1309 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1312 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1316 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1322 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1328 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1331 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1332 may be deleted. (#35845)
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1336 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Various man page enhancements.
1339 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1344 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1347 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1348 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1352 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1355 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1356 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1357 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1359 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1360 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1365 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1371 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Another very minor typo fix.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1377 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Very minor typo fix.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1383 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1386 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1387 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1391 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1397 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1400 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1401 variables properly (#34850).
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1405 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1411 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1414 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1415 (automatically generated by build process).
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1419 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1421 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1425 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1428 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1429 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1431 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1435 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1438 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1442 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * README: minor typo fix.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1448 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1451 leave it at that. :-)
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1455 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1461 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1467 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1470 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1471 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1472 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1476 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1479 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1483 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1486 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1490 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1493 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1494 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1495 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1496 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1500 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1503 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1504 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1505 Craig Small for spotting this.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1509 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1512 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1513 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1517 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1523 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1526 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1530 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1532 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1533 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1534 working on the last version of debhelper.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1538 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1541 being made. (#23255)
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1545 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1551 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1554 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1558 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1561 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1562 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1563 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1564 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1568 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1571 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1572 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1573 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1574 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1576 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1577 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1579 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1584 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1590 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1596 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1599 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1600 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1601 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1602 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1603 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1604 suidregister actually supports it.
1605 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1606 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1610 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1617 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1620 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1621 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1622 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1623 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1624 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1625 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1626 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1630 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1632 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1633 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1637 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1640 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1641 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1642 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1643 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1647 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1650 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1652 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1653 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1654 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1655 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1656 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1657 effect, either. (#30118)
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1661 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1667 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1670 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1671 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1675 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1681 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1684 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1685 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1686 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1687 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1691 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1694 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1695 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1699 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1705 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1708 packages, painlessly.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1712 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1718 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1724 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1730 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * The perl conversion is complete.
1734 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1736 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1737 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1738 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1743 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1746 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1747 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1748 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1752 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1755 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1757 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1759 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1760 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1764 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1767 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1768 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1772 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1778 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1781 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1782 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1783 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1784 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1785 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1789 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1792 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1793 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1794 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1795 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1799 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1802 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1806 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1809 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1810 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1811 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1812 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1813 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1814 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1815 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1816 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1820 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1826 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1829 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1830 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1831 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1836 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1839 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1843 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1846 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1850 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1853 sections of shared libraries.
1854 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1855 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1856 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1857 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1858 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1859 things you don't want them to.
1860 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1861 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1865 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1868 shared libraries. (#26414)
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1872 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1874 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1875 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1876 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1877 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1881 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1885 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1887 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1888 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1889 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1890 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1891 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1895 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1898 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1902 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1905 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1906 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1911 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1914 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1918 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1921 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1922 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1923 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1924 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1925 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1927 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1928 remove debian/files properly.
1929 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1930 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1931 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1932 * Removed bogus menu file.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1936 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1939 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1943 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1946 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1947 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1948 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1949 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1950 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1951 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1955 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1958 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1959 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1960 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1961 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1965 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1972 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1975 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1976 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1978 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1979 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1980 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1981 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1982 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1983 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1987 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1990 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1991 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1992 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1993 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1994 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1995 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1996 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1997 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1998 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1999 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2000 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2001 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2002 passed any switches.
2003 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2007 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2010 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2011 at all for a long while.
2012 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2013 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2014 large chunks in the process.
2015 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2016 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2017 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2022 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2025 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2027 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2032 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2035 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2036 that don't always have the same files in them.
2037 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2038 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2039 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2043 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2047 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2048 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2049 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2050 updating 27 man pages.
2051 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2052 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2053 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2054 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2055 programs act on. (#25247)
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2059 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2063 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2064 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2065 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2066 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2067 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2068 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2073 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2080 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2087 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2090 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2094 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2100 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2103 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2104 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2105 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2106 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2107 package by accident.
2108 * Is version 1.0 next?
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2112 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2115 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2116 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2120 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2123 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2124 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2125 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2126 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2127 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2129 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2134 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2137 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2138 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2142 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2145 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2149 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2152 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2153 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2158 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2164 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2167 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2168 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2173 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2179 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2182 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2183 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2184 past week. Thanks, guys!
2186 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2187 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2188 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2189 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2190 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2191 would do in the same situation.
2192 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2193 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2195 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2197 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2198 permissions changed.
2199 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2200 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2201 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2202 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2203 files are treated identically.
2204 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2205 * Minor man page fixes.
2206 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2207 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2208 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2212 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2215 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2216 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2217 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2218 use -X multiple times, too.
2219 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2220 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2224 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2227 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2228 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2232 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2235 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2239 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2242 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2243 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2244 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2245 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2246 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2247 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2248 shape if you're starting a new package.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2252 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2255 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2259 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2262 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2263 because of missing symlinks.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2267 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2273 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2276 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2277 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2278 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2279 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2280 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2282 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2283 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2287 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2289 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2290 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2291 to be changed after the fact :-)
2292 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2296 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2299 no version string after the -V.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2303 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2305 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2306 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2311 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2314 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2318 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2321 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2322 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2323 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2324 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2325 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2326 I always welcome corrections!
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2330 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2336 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2339 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2340 * Documented this new switch.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2344 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2347 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2348 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2349 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2350 no packages use the old behavior.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2354 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2357 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2358 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2362 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2365 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2369 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2375 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2378 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2382 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2385 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2386 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2387 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2391 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2397 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2400 into the source package by accident.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2404 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2407 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2408 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2409 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2410 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2411 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2412 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2417 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2421 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2422 inspired to implement some of it.
2423 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2427 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2430 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2434 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2437 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2438 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2442 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2445 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2446 have done.) (#17598)
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2450 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2456 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2462 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2465 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2469 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2472 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2473 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2477 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2480 argument processor in perl.
2481 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2482 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2483 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2484 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2488 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2491 type directories. (#16933)
2492 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2493 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2494 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2495 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2496 are supported. (#16935)
2497 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2502 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2505 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2509 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2513 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2514 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2515 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2516 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2517 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2518 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2522 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2525 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2526 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2528 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2529 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2530 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2531 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2532 a given package, or -i or -a.
2533 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2534 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2535 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2536 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2537 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2538 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2539 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2540 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2541 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2543 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2544 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2545 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2549 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2552 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2553 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2558 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2561 does not have a section.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2565 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2568 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2569 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2570 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2574 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Fixed typo #16215.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2580 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2583 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2584 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2585 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2586 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2587 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2592 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2595 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2596 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2597 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2602 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2608 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2614 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2617 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2618 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2619 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2620 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2621 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2622 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2626 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2632 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2635 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2639 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2642 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2643 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2644 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2648 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2651 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2655 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2661 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2664 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2668 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2671 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2675 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2681 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2684 postinst, postrm, etc.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2688 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2694 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2697 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2698 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2699 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2700 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2701 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2705 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2708 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2709 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2713 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2716 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2720 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2723 installing package files into.
2724 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2729 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2733 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2737 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2743 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2746 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2750 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2753 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2754 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2755 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2756 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2760 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2762 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2763 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2764 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2765 multiple binary packages.
2766 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2767 should rebuild them with this version.
2768 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2772 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2775 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2779 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2782 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2786 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2789 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2790 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2791 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2792 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2793 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2794 debian/README.debian.
2795 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2796 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2797 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2798 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2799 in a few situations.)
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2803 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2809 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2815 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2818 * Fixed several man pages.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2822 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2825 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2826 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2830 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2833 is ready for general use.
2834 * Added man pages for all commands.
2835 * Multiple binary package support.
2836 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2837 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2838 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2840 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2841 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2842 auto-installed as parameters.
2843 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2845 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2848 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2849 the package build directory it is to act on.
2850 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2851 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2852 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2856 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2858 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2859 ready to replace debstd.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400