1 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
9 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Typo, Closes: #77441
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
15 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Completed the fix from the last version.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
21 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
27 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
29 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
34 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
37 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
38 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
39 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
40 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
44 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
50 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
53 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
54 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
55 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
56 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
57 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
58 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
63 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
66 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
70 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
76 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
79 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
84 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
87 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
88 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
89 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
90 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
94 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
98 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
101 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
104 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
105 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
108 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
110 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
111 the TODO entry about it.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
115 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
122 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
125 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
126 prevent that. Closes: #73052
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
130 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Typo, Closes: #72932
133 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
134 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
135 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
136 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
140 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
146 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
153 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
156 (this appears to be logal).
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
160 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
163 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
164 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
165 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
166 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
170 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
176 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
178 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
179 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
180 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
181 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
182 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
186 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
192 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
195 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
199 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
206 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
209 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
210 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
211 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
216 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
223 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
229 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
231 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
232 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
233 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
234 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
235 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
236 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
237 notice until v2 is complete.
238 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
239 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
240 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
241 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
242 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
243 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
245 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
246 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
247 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
248 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
252 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
258 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
265 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
268 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
272 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
279 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
282 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
283 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
284 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
285 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
290 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
293 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
294 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
295 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
300 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
303 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
304 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
308 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
311 just skip files that end in -\d+.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
315 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
318 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
322 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
329 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
331 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
332 depend on the build and install targets.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
336 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
339 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
343 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
350 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
356 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
362 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
365 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
366 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
367 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
368 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
369 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
370 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
372 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
373 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
374 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
375 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
376 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
377 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
378 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
382 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
388 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
394 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
397 right place. Closes: #55065
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
401 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
408 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Make all examples rules files executable.
411 * Copyright date updates.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
415 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
418 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
423 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
429 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
436 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
442 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
448 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
454 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
457 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
458 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
459 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
460 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
461 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
462 bits until all files have been registered.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
466 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_installmanpages:
469 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
470 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
471 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
472 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
473 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
474 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
475 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
476 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
477 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
478 otherwise change the result at all.
480 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
481 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
482 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
483 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
484 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
489 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
495 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
498 act on files that don't exist.
499 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
500 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
501 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
503 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
504 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
505 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
506 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
510 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
516 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
518 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
522 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
525 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
529 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
532 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
534 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
535 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
536 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
540 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
543 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
544 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
545 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
546 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
547 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
548 does not compress. Closes: #41733
549 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
551 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
553 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
557 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
564 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
576 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
579 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
583 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
589 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
595 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
598 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
599 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
600 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
601 I made some changes, though:
602 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
603 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
604 that is a clear violation of policy.
605 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
606 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
607 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
608 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
609 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
610 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
611 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
612 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
613 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
615 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
619 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
625 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
628 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
632 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
635 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
636 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
641 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
647 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
654 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
657 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
658 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
659 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
660 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
661 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
662 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
663 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
667 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
673 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
677 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
678 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
682 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
688 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
691 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
695 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
698 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
699 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
703 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
705 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
710 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
714 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
718 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
720 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
721 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
722 for the dependancies to be generated.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
726 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
729 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
733 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
736 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
737 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
738 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
743 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
746 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
747 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
751 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
757 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
763 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
766 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
770 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
776 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
778 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
779 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
780 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
781 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
782 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
783 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
784 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
785 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
786 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
787 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
788 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
789 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
790 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
794 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
796 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
797 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
798 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
800 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
801 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
802 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
803 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
804 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
805 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
807 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
808 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
812 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
815 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
819 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
826 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
828 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
829 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
834 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
837 for building debhelper.
838 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
842 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
849 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Fixed makefile commit target.
852 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
856 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
859 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
860 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
861 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
862 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
863 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
864 it's always available.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
868 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
871 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
872 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
873 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
880 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
881 modules. (Closes: #42171)
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
885 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
891 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
894 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
898 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
904 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
907 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
908 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
909 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
913 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
916 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
921 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
924 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
925 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
927 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
928 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
932 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
938 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
944 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
946 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
947 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
951 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
954 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
955 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
957 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
961 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
964 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
965 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
966 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
970 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
973 things if CDPATH is set.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
983 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
986 seems to make sense for the transition.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
990 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
993 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
998 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1001 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1002 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1006 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1009 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1013 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1016 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1017 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1018 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1019 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1023 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1029 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1032 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1033 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1034 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1035 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1036 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1037 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1038 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1039 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1040 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1041 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1049 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1050 * README: mention doc/v2
1051 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1052 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1056 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1058 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1059 be using this script RSN.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1063 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1066 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1067 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1068 more than 1 init script.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1072 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1075 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1079 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Changed perl version detection.
1082 * Changed call to find.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1086 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1089 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1091 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1096 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Really include dh_installpam.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1102 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1105 * Wrote man page for same.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1109 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1112 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1113 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1118 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1125 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1128 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1129 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1130 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1131 x bit was being set!
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1135 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1138 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1139 well. (Closes: 38900)
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1143 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1146 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1147 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1151 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1157 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1164 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1170 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1173 help from Julian Gilbey.
1174 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1175 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1176 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1177 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1178 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1179 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1180 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1185 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1191 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1198 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1204 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1210 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1213 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1217 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1220 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1224 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1227 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1231 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1237 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1240 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1244 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1250 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1256 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1259 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1260 may be deleted. (#35845)
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1264 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Various man page enhancements.
1267 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1272 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1275 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1276 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1280 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1283 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1284 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1285 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1287 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1288 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1293 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1299 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Another very minor typo fix.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1305 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Very minor typo fix.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1311 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1314 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1315 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1319 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1325 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1328 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1329 variables properly (#34850).
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1333 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1339 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1342 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1343 (automatically generated by build process).
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1347 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1349 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1353 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1356 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1357 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1359 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1363 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1366 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1370 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * README: minor typo fix.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1376 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1379 leave it at that. :-)
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1383 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1389 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1395 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1398 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1399 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1400 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1404 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1407 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1411 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1414 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1418 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1421 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1422 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1423 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1424 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1428 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1431 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1432 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1433 Craig Small for spotting this.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1437 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1440 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1441 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1445 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1451 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1454 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1458 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1460 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1461 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1462 working on the last version of debhelper.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1466 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1469 being made. (#23255)
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1473 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1479 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1482 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1486 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1489 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1490 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1491 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1492 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1496 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1499 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1500 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1501 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1502 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1504 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1505 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1507 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1512 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1518 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1524 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1527 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1528 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1529 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1530 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1531 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1532 suidregister actually supports it.
1533 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1534 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1538 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1545 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1548 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1549 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1550 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1551 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1552 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1553 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1554 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1558 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1560 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1561 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1565 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1568 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1569 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1570 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1571 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1575 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1578 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1580 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1581 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1582 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1583 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1584 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1585 effect, either. (#30118)
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1589 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1595 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1598 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1599 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1603 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1609 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1612 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1613 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1614 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1615 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1619 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1622 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1623 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1627 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1633 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1636 packages, painlessly.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1640 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1646 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1652 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1658 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * The perl conversion is complete.
1662 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1664 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1665 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1666 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1671 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1674 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1675 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1676 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1680 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1683 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1685 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1687 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1688 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1692 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1695 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1696 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1700 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1709 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1710 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1711 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1712 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1713 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1717 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1720 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1721 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1722 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1723 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1727 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1730 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1734 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1737 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1738 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1739 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1740 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1741 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1742 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1743 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1744 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1748 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1754 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1757 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1758 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1759 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1764 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1767 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1771 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1774 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1778 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1781 sections of shared libraries.
1782 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1783 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1784 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1785 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1786 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1787 things you don't want them to.
1788 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1789 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1793 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1796 shared libraries. (#26414)
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1800 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1802 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1803 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1804 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1805 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1809 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1813 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1815 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1816 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1817 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1818 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1819 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1823 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1826 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1830 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1833 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1834 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1839 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1842 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1846 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1849 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1850 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1851 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1852 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1853 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1855 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1856 remove debian/files properly.
1857 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1858 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1859 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1860 * Removed bogus menu file.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1864 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1867 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1871 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1874 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1875 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1876 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1877 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1878 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1879 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1883 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1886 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1887 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1888 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1889 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1893 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1900 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1903 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1904 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1906 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1907 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1908 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1909 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1910 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1911 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1915 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1918 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1919 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1920 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1921 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1922 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1923 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1924 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1925 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1926 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1927 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1928 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1929 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1930 passed any switches.
1931 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1935 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1938 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1939 at all for a long while.
1940 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1941 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1942 large chunks in the process.
1943 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1944 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1945 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1950 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1953 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1955 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1960 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1963 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1964 that don't always have the same files in them.
1965 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1966 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1967 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1971 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1975 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1976 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1977 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1978 updating 27 man pages.
1979 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1980 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1981 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1982 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1983 programs act on. (#25247)
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1987 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1991 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1992 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1993 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1994 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1995 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1996 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2001 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2008 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2015 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2018 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2022 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2028 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2031 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2032 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2033 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2034 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2035 package by accident.
2036 * Is version 1.0 next?
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2040 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2043 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2044 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2048 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2051 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2052 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2053 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2054 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2055 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2057 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2062 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2065 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2066 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2070 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2073 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2077 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2080 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2081 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2086 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2092 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2095 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2096 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2101 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2107 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2110 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2111 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2112 past week. Thanks, guys!
2114 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2115 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2116 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2117 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2118 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2119 would do in the same situation.
2120 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2121 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2123 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2125 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2126 permissions changed.
2127 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2128 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2129 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2130 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2131 files are treated identically.
2132 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2133 * Minor man page fixes.
2134 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2135 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2136 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2140 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2143 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2144 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2145 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2146 use -X multiple times, too.
2147 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2148 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2152 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2155 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2156 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2160 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2163 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2167 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2170 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2171 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2172 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2173 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2174 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2175 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2176 shape if you're starting a new package.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2180 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2183 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2187 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2190 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2191 because of missing symlinks.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2195 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2201 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2204 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2205 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2206 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2207 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2208 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2210 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2211 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2215 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2217 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2218 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2219 to be changed after the fact :-)
2220 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2224 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2227 no version string after the -V.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2231 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2233 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2234 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2239 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2242 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2246 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2249 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2250 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2251 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2252 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2253 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2254 I always welcome corrections!
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2258 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2264 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2267 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2268 * Documented this new switch.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2272 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2275 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2276 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2277 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2278 no packages use the old behavior.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2282 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2285 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2286 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2290 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2293 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2297 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2303 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2306 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2310 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2313 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2314 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2315 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2319 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2325 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2328 into the source package by accident.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2332 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2335 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2336 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2337 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2338 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2339 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2340 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2345 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2349 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2350 inspired to implement some of it.
2351 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2355 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2358 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2362 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2365 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2366 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2370 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2373 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2374 have done.) (#17598)
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2378 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2384 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2390 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2393 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2397 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2400 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2401 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2405 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2408 argument processor in perl.
2409 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2410 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2411 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2412 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2416 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2419 type directories. (#16933)
2420 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2421 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2422 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2423 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2424 are supported. (#16935)
2425 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2430 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2433 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2437 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2441 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2442 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2443 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2444 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2445 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2446 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2450 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2453 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2454 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2456 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2457 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2458 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2459 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2460 a given package, or -i or -a.
2461 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2462 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2463 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2464 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2465 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2466 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2467 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2468 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2469 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2471 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2472 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2473 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2477 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2480 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2481 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2486 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2489 does not have a section.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2493 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2496 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2497 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2498 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2502 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Fixed typo #16215.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2508 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2511 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2512 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2513 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2514 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2515 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2520 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2523 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2524 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2525 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2530 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2536 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2542 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2545 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2546 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2547 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2548 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2549 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2550 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2554 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2560 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2563 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2567 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2570 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2571 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2572 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2576 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2579 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2583 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2589 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2592 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2596 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2599 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2603 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2609 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2612 postinst, postrm, etc.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2616 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2622 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2625 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2626 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2627 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2628 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2629 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2633 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2636 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2637 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2641 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2644 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2648 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2651 installing package files into.
2652 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2657 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2661 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2665 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2671 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2674 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2678 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2681 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2682 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2683 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2684 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2688 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2690 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2691 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2692 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2693 multiple binary packages.
2694 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2695 should rebuild them with this version.
2696 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2700 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2703 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2707 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2710 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2714 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2717 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2718 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2719 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2720 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2721 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2722 debian/README.debian.
2723 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2724 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2725 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2726 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2727 in a few situations.)
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2731 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2737 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2743 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2746 * Fixed several man pages.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2750 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2753 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2754 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2758 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2761 is ready for general use.
2762 * Added man pages for all commands.
2763 * Multiple binary package support.
2764 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2765 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2766 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2768 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2769 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2770 auto-installed as parameters.
2771 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2773 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2776 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2777 the package build directory it is to act on.
2778 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2779 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2780 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2784 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2786 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2787 ready to replace debstd.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400