1 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
7 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
13 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
16 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
17 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
18 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
19 I made some changes, though:
20 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
21 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
22 that is a clear violation of policy.
23 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
24 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
25 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
26 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
27 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
28 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
29 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brandon's
30 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
31 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
33 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
37 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
43 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
46 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
50 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
53 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
54 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
59 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
65 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
72 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
75 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
76 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
77 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
78 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
79 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
80 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
81 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
85 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
91 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
95 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
96 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
100 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
106 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
109 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
113 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
116 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
117 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
121 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
123 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
128 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
132 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
136 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
138 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
139 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
140 for the dependancies to be generated.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
144 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
147 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
151 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
154 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
155 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
156 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
161 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
164 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
165 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
169 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
175 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
181 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
184 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
188 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
196 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
197 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
198 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
199 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
200 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
201 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
202 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
203 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
204 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
205 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
206 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
207 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
208 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
212 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
214 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
215 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
216 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
218 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
219 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
220 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
221 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
222 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
223 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
225 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
226 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
230 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
233 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
237 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
244 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
246 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
247 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
252 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
255 for building debhelper.
256 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
260 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Fixed makefile commit target.
270 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
277 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
278 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
279 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
280 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
281 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
282 it's always available.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
286 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
289 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
290 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
291 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
295 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
298 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
299 modules. (Closes: #42171)
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
303 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
309 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
312 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
316 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
322 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
325 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
326 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
327 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
331 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
334 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
339 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
342 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
343 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
345 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
346 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
350 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
356 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
362 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
364 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
365 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
369 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
372 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
373 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
375 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
379 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
382 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
383 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
384 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
388 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
391 things if CDPATH is set.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
395 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
401 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
404 seems to make sense for the transition.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
408 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
411 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
416 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
419 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
420 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
424 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
426 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
427 that version. (Closes: #40589)
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
431 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
433 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
434 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
435 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
436 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
437 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
441 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
447 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
450 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
451 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
452 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
453 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
454 * debhelper.1: documented this.
455 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
456 current compatability level is equal to that number.
457 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
458 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
459 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
464 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
466 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
467 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
468 * README: mention doc/v2
469 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
470 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
474 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
476 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
477 be using this script RSN.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
481 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
484 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
485 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
486 more than 1 init script.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
490 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
493 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
497 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Changed perl version detection.
500 * Changed call to find.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
504 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
507 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
509 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
514 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Really include dh_installpam.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
520 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
523 * Wrote man page for same.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
527 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
530 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
531 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
536 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
543 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
546 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
547 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
548 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
553 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
556 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
557 well. (Closes: 38900)
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
561 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
564 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
565 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
569 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
575 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
582 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
588 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
590 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
591 help from Julian Gilbey.
592 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
593 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
594 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
595 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
596 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
597 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
598 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
603 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
609 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
611 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
616 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
622 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
628 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
631 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
635 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
638 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
642 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
645 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
649 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
655 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
658 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
662 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
664 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
668 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
670 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
674 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
677 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
678 may be deleted. (#35845)
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
682 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Various man page enhancements.
685 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
690 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
693 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
694 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
698 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
701 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
702 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
703 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
705 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
706 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
711 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
717 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Another very minor typo fix.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
723 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Very minor typo fix.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
729 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
732 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
733 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
737 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
743 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
745 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
746 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
747 variables properly (#34850).
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
751 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
753 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
757 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
760 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
761 (automatically generated by build process).
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
765 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
767 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
771 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
774 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
775 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
777 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
781 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
784 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
788 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
790 * README: minor typo fix.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
794 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
797 leave it at that. :-)
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
801 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
807 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
813 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
816 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
817 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
818 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
822 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
825 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
829 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
832 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
836 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
839 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
840 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
841 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
842 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
846 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
849 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
850 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
851 Craig Small for spotting this.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
855 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
858 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
859 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
863 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
869 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
872 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
876 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
878 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
879 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
880 working on the last version of debhelper.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
884 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
891 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
893 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
897 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
900 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
904 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
906 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
907 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
908 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
909 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
910 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
914 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
917 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
918 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
919 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
920 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
922 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
923 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
925 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
930 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
932 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
936 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
942 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
945 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
946 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
947 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
948 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
949 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
950 suidregister actually supports it.
951 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
952 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
956 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
963 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
966 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
967 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
968 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
969 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
970 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
971 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
972 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
976 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
978 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
979 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
983 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
986 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
987 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
988 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
989 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
993 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
996 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
998 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
999 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1000 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1001 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1002 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1003 effect, either. (#30118)
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1007 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1013 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1016 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1017 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1021 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1027 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1030 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1031 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1032 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1033 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1037 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1040 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1041 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1045 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1051 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1054 packages, painlessly.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1058 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1064 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1070 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1076 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * The perl conversion is complete.
1080 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1082 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1083 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1084 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1089 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1092 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1093 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1094 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1098 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1101 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1103 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1105 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1106 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1110 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1113 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1114 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1118 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1124 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1127 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1128 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1129 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1130 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1131 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1135 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1138 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1139 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1140 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1141 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1145 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1148 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1152 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1155 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1156 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1157 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1158 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1159 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1160 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1161 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1162 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1166 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1172 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1175 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1176 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1177 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1182 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1185 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1189 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1192 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1196 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1199 sections of shared libraries.
1200 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1201 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1202 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1203 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1204 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1205 things you don't want them to.
1206 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1207 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1211 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1214 shared libraries. (#26414)
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1220 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1221 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1222 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1223 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1227 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1231 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1233 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1234 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1235 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1236 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1237 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1241 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1244 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1248 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1251 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1252 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1257 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1260 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1264 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1267 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1268 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1269 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1270 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1271 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1273 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1274 remove debian/files properly.
1275 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1276 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1277 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1278 * Removed bogus menu file.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1282 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1285 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1289 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1292 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1293 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1294 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1295 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1296 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1297 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1301 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1304 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1305 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1306 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1307 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1311 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1318 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1321 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1322 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1324 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1325 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1326 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1327 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1328 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1329 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1333 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1336 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1337 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1338 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1339 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1340 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1341 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1342 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1343 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1344 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1345 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1346 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1347 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1348 passed any switches.
1349 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1353 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1356 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1357 at all for a long while.
1358 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1359 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1360 large chunks in the process.
1361 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1362 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1363 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1368 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1371 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1373 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1378 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1381 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1382 that don't always have the same files in them.
1383 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1384 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1385 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1389 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1393 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1394 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1395 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1396 updating 27 man pages.
1397 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1398 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1399 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1400 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1401 programs act on. (#25247)
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1405 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1409 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1410 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1411 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1412 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1413 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1414 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1419 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1426 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1433 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1436 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1440 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1446 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1449 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1450 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1451 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1452 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1453 package by accident.
1454 * Is version 1.0 next?
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1458 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1461 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1462 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1466 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1469 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1470 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1471 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1472 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1473 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1475 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1480 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1483 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1484 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1488 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1491 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1495 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1498 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1499 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1504 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1510 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1513 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1514 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1519 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1525 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1528 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1529 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1530 past week. Thanks, guys!
1532 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1533 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1534 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1535 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1536 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1537 would do in the same situation.
1538 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1539 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1541 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1543 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1544 permissions changed.
1545 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1546 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1547 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1548 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1549 files are treated identically.
1550 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1551 * Minor man page fixes.
1552 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1553 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1554 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1558 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1561 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1562 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1563 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1564 use -X multiple times, too.
1565 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1566 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1570 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1573 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1574 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1578 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1581 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1585 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1588 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1589 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1590 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1591 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1592 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1593 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1594 shape if you're starting a new package.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1598 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1601 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1605 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1608 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1609 because of missing symlinks.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1613 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1619 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1622 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1623 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1624 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1625 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1626 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1628 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1629 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1633 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1635 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1636 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1637 to be changed after the fact :-)
1638 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1642 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1645 no version string after the -V.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1649 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1651 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1652 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1657 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1660 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1664 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1667 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1668 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1669 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1670 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1671 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1672 I always welcome corrections!
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1676 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1682 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1685 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1686 * Documented this new switch.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1690 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1693 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1694 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1695 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1696 no packages use the old behavior.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1700 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1703 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1704 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1708 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1711 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1715 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1721 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1724 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1728 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1731 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1732 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1733 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1737 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1743 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1746 into the source package by accident.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1750 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1753 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1754 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1755 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1756 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1757 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1758 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1763 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1767 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1768 inspired to implement some of it.
1769 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1773 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1776 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1780 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1783 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1784 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1788 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1791 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1792 have done.) (#17598)
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1796 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1802 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1808 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1811 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1815 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1818 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1819 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1823 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1826 argument processor in perl.
1827 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1828 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1829 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1830 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1834 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1837 type directories. (#16933)
1838 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1839 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1840 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1841 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1842 are supported. (#16935)
1843 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1848 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1851 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1855 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1859 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1860 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1861 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1862 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1863 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1864 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1868 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1871 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1872 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1874 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1875 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1876 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1877 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1878 a given package, or -i or -a.
1879 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1880 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1881 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1882 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1883 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1884 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1885 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1886 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1887 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1889 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1890 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1891 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1895 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1898 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1899 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1904 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1907 does not have a section.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1911 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1914 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1915 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1916 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1920 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Fixed typo #16215.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1926 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1929 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1930 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1931 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1932 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1933 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1938 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1941 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1942 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1943 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1948 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1954 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1960 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1963 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1964 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1965 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1966 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1967 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1968 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1972 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1978 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1981 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1985 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1988 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1989 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1990 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1994 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1997 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2001 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2007 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2010 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2014 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2017 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2021 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2027 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2030 postinst, postrm, etc.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2034 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2040 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2043 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2044 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2045 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2046 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2047 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2051 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2054 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2055 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2059 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2062 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2066 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2069 installing package files into.
2070 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2075 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2079 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2083 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2089 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2092 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2096 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2099 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2100 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2101 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2102 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2106 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2108 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2109 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2110 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2111 multiple binary packages.
2112 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2113 should rebuild them with this version.
2114 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2118 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2121 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2125 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2128 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2132 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2135 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2136 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2137 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2138 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2139 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2140 debian/README.debian.
2141 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2142 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2143 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2144 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2145 in a few situations.)
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2149 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2155 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2161 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2164 * Fixed several man pages.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2168 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2171 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2172 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2176 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2179 is ready for general use.
2180 * Added man pages for all commands.
2181 * Multiple binary package support.
2182 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2183 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2184 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2186 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2187 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2188 auto-installed as parameters.
2189 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2191 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2194 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2195 the package build directory it is to act on.
2196 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2197 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2198 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2202 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2204 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2205 ready to replace debstd.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400