1 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
5 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
6 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
7 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
11 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
15 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
18 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
21 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
22 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
25 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
27 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
28 the TODO entry about it.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
32 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
39 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
42 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
43 prevent that. Closes: #73052
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
47 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Typo, Closes: #72932
50 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
51 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
52 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
53 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
57 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
63 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
70 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
73 (this appears to be logal).
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
77 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
80 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
81 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
82 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
83 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
87 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
93 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
95 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
96 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
97 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
98 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
99 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
103 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
109 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
112 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
116 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
123 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
126 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
127 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
128 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
133 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
140 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
146 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
148 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
149 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
150 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
151 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
152 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
153 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
154 notice until v2 is complete.
155 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
156 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
157 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
158 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
159 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
160 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
162 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
163 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
164 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
165 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
169 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
175 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
182 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
184 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
185 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
189 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
199 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
200 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
201 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
202 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
207 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
210 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
211 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
212 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
217 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
220 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
221 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
225 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
228 just skip files that end in -\d+.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
232 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
235 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
239 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
246 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
248 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
249 depend on the build and install targets.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
253 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
256 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
260 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
273 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
279 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
282 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
283 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
284 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
285 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
286 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
287 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
289 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
290 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
291 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
292 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
293 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
294 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
295 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
299 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
305 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
311 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
314 right place. Closes: #55065
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
318 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
325 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Make all examples rules files executable.
328 * Copyright date updates.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
332 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
335 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
340 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
346 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
353 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
359 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
365 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
371 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
374 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
375 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
376 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
377 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
378 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
379 bits until all files have been registered.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
383 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_installmanpages:
386 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
387 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
388 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
389 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
390 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
391 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
392 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
393 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
394 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
395 otherwise change the result at all.
397 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
398 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
399 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
400 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
401 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
406 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
412 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
415 act on files that don't exist.
416 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
417 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
418 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
420 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
421 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
422 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
423 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
427 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
433 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
439 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
442 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
446 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
449 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
451 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
452 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
453 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
457 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
460 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
461 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
462 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
463 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
464 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
465 does not compress. Closes: #41733
466 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
468 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
470 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
474 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
476 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
481 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
487 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
493 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
496 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
500 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
506 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
512 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
515 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
516 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
517 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
518 I made some changes, though:
519 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
520 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
521 that is a clear violation of policy.
522 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
523 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
524 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
525 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
526 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
527 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
528 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
529 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
530 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
532 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
536 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
542 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
545 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
549 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
552 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
553 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
558 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
564 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
571 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
574 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
575 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
576 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
577 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
578 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
579 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
580 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
584 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
590 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
594 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
595 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
599 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
605 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
608 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
612 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
615 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
616 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
620 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
622 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
627 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
631 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
635 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
637 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
638 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
639 for the dependancies to be generated.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
646 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
650 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
653 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
654 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
655 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
660 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
663 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
664 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
668 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
674 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
680 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
683 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
687 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
693 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
695 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
696 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
697 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
698 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
699 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
700 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
701 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
702 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
703 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
704 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
705 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
706 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
707 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
711 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
713 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
714 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
715 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
717 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
718 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
719 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
720 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
721 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
722 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
724 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
725 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
729 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
732 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
736 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
743 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
745 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
746 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
751 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
754 for building debhelper.
755 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
759 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
766 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Fixed makefile commit target.
769 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
773 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
776 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
777 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
778 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
779 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
780 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
781 it's always available.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
785 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
788 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
789 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
790 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
794 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
797 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
798 modules. (Closes: #42171)
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
802 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
811 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
815 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
821 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
824 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
825 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
826 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
830 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
833 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
841 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
842 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
844 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
845 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
849 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
855 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
861 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
863 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
864 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
868 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
871 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
872 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
874 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
878 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
881 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
882 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
883 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
887 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
890 things if CDPATH is set.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
894 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
900 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
903 seems to make sense for the transition.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
907 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
910 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
915 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
918 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
919 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
923 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
926 that version. (Closes: #40589)
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
930 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
932 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
933 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
934 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
935 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
936 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
940 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
946 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
949 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
950 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
951 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
952 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
953 * debhelper.1: documented this.
954 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
955 current compatability level is equal to that number.
956 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
957 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
958 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
963 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
965 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
966 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
967 * README: mention doc/v2
968 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
969 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
973 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
975 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
976 be using this script RSN.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
980 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
983 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
984 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
985 more than 1 init script.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
989 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
992 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
996 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Changed perl version detection.
999 * Changed call to find.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1003 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1006 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1008 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1013 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Really include dh_installpam.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1019 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1022 * Wrote man page for same.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1026 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1029 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1030 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1035 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1042 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1045 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1046 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1047 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1048 x bit was being set!
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1052 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1055 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1056 well. (Closes: 38900)
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1060 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1063 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1064 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1068 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1074 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1081 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1087 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1090 help from Julian Gilbey.
1091 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1092 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1093 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1094 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1095 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1096 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1097 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1102 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1108 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1115 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1121 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1127 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1130 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1134 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1137 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1141 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1144 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1148 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1154 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1157 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1161 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1167 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1173 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1176 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1177 may be deleted. (#35845)
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1181 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Various man page enhancements.
1184 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1189 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1192 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1193 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1197 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1200 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1201 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1202 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1204 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1205 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1210 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1216 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Another very minor typo fix.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1222 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Very minor typo fix.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1228 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1231 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1232 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1236 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1242 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1245 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1246 variables properly (#34850).
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1250 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1256 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1259 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1260 (automatically generated by build process).
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1264 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1266 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1270 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1273 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1274 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1276 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1280 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1283 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1287 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * README: minor typo fix.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1293 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1296 leave it at that. :-)
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1300 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1306 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1312 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1315 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1316 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1317 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1321 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1324 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1328 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1331 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1335 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1338 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1339 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1340 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1341 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1345 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1348 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1349 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1350 Craig Small for spotting this.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1354 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1357 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1358 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1362 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1368 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1371 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1375 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1377 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1378 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1379 working on the last version of debhelper.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1383 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1386 being made. (#23255)
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1390 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1396 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1399 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1403 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1406 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1407 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1408 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1409 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1413 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1416 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1417 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1418 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1419 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1421 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1422 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1424 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1429 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1435 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1441 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1444 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1445 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1446 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1447 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1448 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1449 suidregister actually supports it.
1450 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1451 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1455 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1462 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1465 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1466 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1467 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1468 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1469 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1470 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1471 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1475 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1477 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1478 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1482 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1485 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1486 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1487 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1488 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1492 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1495 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1497 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1498 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1499 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1500 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1501 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1502 effect, either. (#30118)
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1506 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1512 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1515 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1516 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1520 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1526 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1529 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1530 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1531 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1532 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1536 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1539 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1540 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1544 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1550 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1553 packages, painlessly.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1557 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1563 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1569 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1575 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * The perl conversion is complete.
1579 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1581 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1582 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1583 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1588 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1591 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1592 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1593 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1597 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1600 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1602 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1604 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1605 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1609 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1612 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1613 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1617 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1623 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1626 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1627 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1628 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1629 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1630 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1634 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1637 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1638 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1639 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1640 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1644 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1647 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1651 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1654 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1655 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1656 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1657 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1658 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1659 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1660 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1661 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1665 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1671 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1674 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1675 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1676 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1681 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1684 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1688 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1691 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1695 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1698 sections of shared libraries.
1699 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1700 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1701 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1702 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1703 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1704 things you don't want them to.
1705 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1706 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1710 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1713 shared libraries. (#26414)
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1717 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1719 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1720 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1721 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1722 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1726 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1730 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1732 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1733 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1734 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1735 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1736 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1740 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1743 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1747 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1750 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1751 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1756 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1759 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1763 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1766 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1767 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1768 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1769 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1770 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1772 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1773 remove debian/files properly.
1774 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1775 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1776 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1777 * Removed bogus menu file.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1781 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1784 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1788 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1791 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1792 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1793 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1794 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1795 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1796 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1800 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1803 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1804 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1805 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1806 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1810 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1817 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1820 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1821 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1823 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1824 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1825 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1826 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1827 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1828 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1832 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1835 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1836 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1837 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1838 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1839 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1840 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1841 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1842 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1843 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1844 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1845 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1846 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1847 passed any switches.
1848 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1852 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1855 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1856 at all for a long while.
1857 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1858 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1859 large chunks in the process.
1860 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1861 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1862 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1867 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1870 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1872 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1877 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1880 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1881 that don't always have the same files in them.
1882 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1883 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1884 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1888 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1892 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1893 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1894 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1895 updating 27 man pages.
1896 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1897 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1898 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1899 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1900 programs act on. (#25247)
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1904 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1908 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1909 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1910 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1911 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1912 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1913 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1918 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1925 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1932 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1935 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1939 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1945 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1948 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1949 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1950 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1951 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1952 package by accident.
1953 * Is version 1.0 next?
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1957 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1960 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1961 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1965 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1968 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1969 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1970 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1971 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1972 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1974 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1979 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1982 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1983 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1987 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1990 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1994 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1997 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1998 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2003 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2009 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2012 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2013 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2018 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2024 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2027 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2028 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2029 past week. Thanks, guys!
2031 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2032 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2033 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2034 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2035 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2036 would do in the same situation.
2037 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2038 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2040 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2042 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2043 permissions changed.
2044 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2045 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2046 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2047 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2048 files are treated identically.
2049 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2050 * Minor man page fixes.
2051 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2052 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2053 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2057 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2060 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2061 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2062 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2063 use -X multiple times, too.
2064 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2065 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2069 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2072 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2073 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2077 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2080 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2084 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2087 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2088 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2089 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2090 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2091 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2092 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2093 shape if you're starting a new package.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2097 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2100 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2104 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2107 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2108 because of missing symlinks.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2112 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2118 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2121 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2122 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2123 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2124 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2125 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2127 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2128 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2132 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2134 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2135 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2136 to be changed after the fact :-)
2137 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2141 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2144 no version string after the -V.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2148 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2150 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2151 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2156 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2159 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2163 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2166 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2167 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2168 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2169 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2170 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2171 I always welcome corrections!
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2175 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2181 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2184 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2185 * Documented this new switch.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2189 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2192 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2193 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2194 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2195 no packages use the old behavior.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2199 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2202 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2203 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2207 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2210 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2214 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2220 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2223 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2227 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2230 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2231 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2232 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2236 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2242 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2245 into the source package by accident.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2249 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2252 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2253 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2254 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2255 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2256 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2257 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2262 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2266 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2267 inspired to implement some of it.
2268 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2272 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2275 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2279 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2282 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2283 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2287 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2290 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2291 have done.) (#17598)
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2295 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2301 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2307 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2310 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2314 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2317 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2318 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2322 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2325 argument processor in perl.
2326 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2327 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2328 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2329 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2333 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2336 type directories. (#16933)
2337 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2338 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2339 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2340 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2341 are supported. (#16935)
2342 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2347 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2350 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2354 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2358 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2359 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2360 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2361 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2362 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2363 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2367 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2370 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2371 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2373 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2374 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2375 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2376 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2377 a given package, or -i or -a.
2378 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2379 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2380 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2381 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2382 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2383 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2384 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2385 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2386 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2388 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2389 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2390 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2394 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2397 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2398 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2403 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2406 does not have a section.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2410 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2413 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2414 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2415 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2419 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Fixed typo #16215.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2425 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2428 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2429 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2430 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2431 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2432 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2437 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2440 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2441 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2442 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2447 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2453 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2459 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2462 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2463 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2464 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2465 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2466 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2467 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2471 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2477 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2480 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2484 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2487 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2488 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2489 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2493 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2496 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2500 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2506 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2509 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2513 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2516 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2520 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2526 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2529 postinst, postrm, etc.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2533 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2539 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2542 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2543 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2544 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2545 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2546 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2550 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2553 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2554 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2558 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2561 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2565 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2568 installing package files into.
2569 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2574 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2578 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2582 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2588 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2591 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2595 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2598 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2599 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2600 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2601 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2605 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2607 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2608 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2609 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2610 multiple binary packages.
2611 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2612 should rebuild them with this version.
2613 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2617 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2620 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2624 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2627 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2631 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2634 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2635 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2636 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2637 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2638 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2639 debian/README.debian.
2640 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2641 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2642 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2643 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2644 in a few situations.)
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2648 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2654 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2660 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2663 * Fixed several man pages.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2667 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2670 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2671 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2675 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2678 is ready for general use.
2679 * Added man pages for all commands.
2680 * Multiple binary package support.
2681 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2682 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2683 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2685 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2686 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2687 auto-installed as parameters.
2688 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2690 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2693 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2694 the package build directory it is to act on.
2695 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2696 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2697 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2701 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2703 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2704 ready to replace debstd.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400