1 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
8 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
11 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
12 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
13 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
14 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
15 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
16 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
17 but is mildly deprecated.
18 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
19 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
20 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
21 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
22 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
23 switching to statoverrides..
24 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
25 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
26 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
27 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
28 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
29 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
31 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
32 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
33 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
34 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
35 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
36 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
37 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
38 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
39 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
41 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
42 variable names, pod man pages).
43 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
44 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
45 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
46 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
47 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
48 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
49 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
53 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
59 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
66 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
69 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
73 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
75 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
76 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
77 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
81 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
83 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
84 they were previously ignored.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
88 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
90 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
91 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
95 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
97 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
98 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
99 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
103 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
105 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
109 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
111 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
112 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
116 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
118 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
119 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
120 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
121 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
122 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
123 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
124 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
125 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
126 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
127 it is an obsolete program.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
131 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
133 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
137 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
141 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
143 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
147 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
149 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
151 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
153 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
157 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
163 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
165 * typo: Closes, #78567
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
169 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
175 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
181 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
183 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
184 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
185 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
186 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
187 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
188 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
192 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
195 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
200 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
203 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
204 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
205 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
206 backwards-compatability.
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
210 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
212 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
213 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
214 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
215 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
216 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
217 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
218 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
220 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
221 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
222 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
224 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
226 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
227 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
228 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
229 should now be raised to severity important..
230 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
231 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
235 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
238 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
243 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Typo, Closes: #77441
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
249 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Completed the fix from the last version.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
255 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
261 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
263 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
268 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
271 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
272 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
273 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
274 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
278 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
284 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
287 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
288 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
289 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
290 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
291 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
292 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
297 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
300 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
304 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
310 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
313 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
318 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
321 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
322 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
323 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
324 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
328 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
332 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
335 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
338 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
339 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
342 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
344 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
345 the TODO entry about it.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
349 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
356 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
359 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
360 prevent that. Closes: #73052
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
364 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Typo, Closes: #72932
367 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
368 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
369 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
370 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
374 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
380 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
387 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
390 (this appears to be logal).
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
394 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
397 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
398 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
399 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
400 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
404 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
410 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
412 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
413 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
414 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
415 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
416 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
420 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
426 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
429 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
433 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
440 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
443 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
444 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
445 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
450 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
457 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
463 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
465 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
466 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
467 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
468 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
469 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
470 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
471 notice until v2 is complete.
472 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
473 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
474 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
475 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
476 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
477 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
479 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
480 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
481 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
482 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
486 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
492 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
499 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
502 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
506 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
513 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
516 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
517 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
518 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
519 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
524 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
527 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
528 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
529 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
534 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
537 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
538 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
542 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
545 just skip files that end in -\d+.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
549 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
552 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
556 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
565 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
566 depend on the build and install targets.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
573 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
577 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
584 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
590 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
596 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
599 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
600 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
601 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
602 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
603 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
604 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
606 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
607 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
608 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
609 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
610 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
611 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
612 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
616 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
622 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
628 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
631 right place. Closes: #55065
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
635 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
642 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Make all examples rules files executable.
645 * Copyright date updates.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
649 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
652 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
657 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
663 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
670 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
676 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
682 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
688 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
691 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
692 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
693 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
694 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
695 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
696 bits until all files have been registered.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
700 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_installmanpages:
703 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
704 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
705 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
706 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
707 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
708 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
709 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
710 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
711 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
712 otherwise change the result at all.
714 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
715 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
716 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
717 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
718 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
723 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
729 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
732 act on files that don't exist.
733 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
734 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
735 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
737 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
738 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
739 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
740 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
744 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
750 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
756 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
759 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
763 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
766 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
768 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
769 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
770 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
774 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
777 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
778 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
779 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
780 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
781 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
782 does not compress. Closes: #41733
783 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
785 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
787 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
791 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
798 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
804 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
810 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
813 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
817 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
829 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
832 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
833 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
834 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
835 I made some changes, though:
836 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
837 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
838 that is a clear violation of policy.
839 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
840 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
841 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
842 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
843 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
844 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
845 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
846 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
847 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
849 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
853 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
859 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
862 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
866 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
869 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
870 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
875 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
881 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
888 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
891 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
892 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
893 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
894 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
895 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
896 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
897 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
901 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
907 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
911 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
912 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
916 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
922 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
925 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
929 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
932 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
933 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
937 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
939 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
944 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
948 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
952 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
954 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
955 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
956 for the dependancies to be generated.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
960 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
963 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
967 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
970 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
971 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
972 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
980 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
981 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
985 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
991 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
997 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1000 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1004 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1010 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1013 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1014 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1015 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1016 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1017 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1018 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1019 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1020 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1021 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1022 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1023 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1024 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1028 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1031 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1032 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1034 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1035 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1036 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1037 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1038 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1039 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1041 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1042 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1046 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1049 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1053 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1063 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1068 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1071 for building debhelper.
1072 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1076 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1083 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1086 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1090 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1093 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1094 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1095 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1096 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1097 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1098 it's always available.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1102 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1105 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1106 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1107 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1111 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1114 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1115 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1119 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1125 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1128 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1132 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1138 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1141 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1142 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1143 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1147 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1150 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1155 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1158 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1159 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1161 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1162 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1172 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1178 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1181 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1185 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1188 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1189 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1191 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1195 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1198 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1199 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1200 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1204 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1207 things if CDPATH is set.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1211 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1217 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1220 seems to make sense for the transition.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1224 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1227 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1235 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1236 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1240 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1243 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1247 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1250 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1251 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1252 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1253 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1257 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1263 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1266 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1267 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1268 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1269 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1270 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1271 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1272 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1273 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1274 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1275 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1280 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1283 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1284 * README: mention doc/v2
1285 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1286 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1290 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1292 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1293 be using this script RSN.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1297 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1300 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1301 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1302 more than 1 init script.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1306 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1309 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1313 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Changed perl version detection.
1316 * Changed call to find.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1320 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1323 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1325 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1330 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Really include dh_installpam.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1336 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1339 * Wrote man page for same.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1343 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1346 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1347 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1352 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1359 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1362 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1363 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1364 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1365 x bit was being set!
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1369 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1372 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1373 well. (Closes: 38900)
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1377 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1380 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1381 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1385 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1391 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1398 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1404 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1407 help from Julian Gilbey.
1408 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1409 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1410 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1411 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1412 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1413 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1414 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1419 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1425 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1432 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1438 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1444 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1447 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1451 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1454 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1458 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1461 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1465 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1471 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1474 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1478 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1484 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1490 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1493 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1494 may be deleted. (#35845)
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1498 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Various man page enhancements.
1501 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1506 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1509 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1510 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1514 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1517 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1518 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1519 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1521 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1522 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1527 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1533 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Another very minor typo fix.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1539 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Very minor typo fix.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1545 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1548 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1549 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1553 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1559 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1562 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1563 variables properly (#34850).
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1567 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1573 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1576 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1577 (automatically generated by build process).
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1581 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1583 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1587 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1590 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1591 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1593 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1597 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1600 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1604 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * README: minor typo fix.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1610 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1613 leave it at that. :-)
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1617 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1623 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1629 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1632 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1633 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1634 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1638 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1641 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1645 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1648 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1652 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1655 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1656 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1657 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1658 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1662 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1665 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1666 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1667 Craig Small for spotting this.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1671 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1674 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1675 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1679 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1685 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1688 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1692 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1694 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1695 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1696 working on the last version of debhelper.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1700 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1703 being made. (#23255)
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1707 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1713 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1716 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1720 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1723 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1724 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1725 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1726 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1730 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1733 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1734 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1735 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1736 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1738 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1739 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1741 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1746 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1752 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1758 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1761 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1762 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1763 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1764 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1765 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1766 suidregister actually supports it.
1767 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1768 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1772 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1779 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1782 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1783 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1784 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1785 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1786 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1787 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1788 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1792 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1794 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1795 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1799 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1802 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1803 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1804 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1805 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1812 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1814 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1815 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1816 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1817 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1818 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1819 effect, either. (#30118)
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1823 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1829 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1832 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1833 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1837 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1843 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1846 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1847 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1848 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1849 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1853 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1856 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1857 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1861 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1867 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1870 packages, painlessly.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1874 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1880 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1886 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1892 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * The perl conversion is complete.
1896 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1898 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1899 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1900 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1905 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1908 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1909 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1910 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1914 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1917 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1919 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1921 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1922 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1926 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1929 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1930 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1934 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1940 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1943 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1944 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1945 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1946 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1947 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1951 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1954 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1955 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1956 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1957 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1961 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1964 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1968 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1971 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1972 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1973 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1974 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1975 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1976 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1977 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1978 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1982 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1988 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1991 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1992 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1993 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1998 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2001 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2005 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2008 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2012 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2015 sections of shared libraries.
2016 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2017 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2018 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2019 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2020 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2021 things you don't want them to.
2022 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2023 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2027 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2030 shared libraries. (#26414)
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2034 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2036 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2037 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2038 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2039 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2043 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2047 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2049 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2050 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2051 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2052 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2053 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2057 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2060 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2064 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2067 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2068 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2073 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2076 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2080 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2083 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2084 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2085 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2086 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2087 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2089 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2090 remove debian/files properly.
2091 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2092 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2093 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2094 * Removed bogus menu file.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2098 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2101 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2105 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2108 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2109 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2110 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2111 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2112 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2113 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2117 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2120 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2121 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2122 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2123 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2127 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2134 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2137 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2138 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2140 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2141 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2142 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2143 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2144 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2145 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2149 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2152 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2153 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2154 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2155 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2156 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2157 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2158 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2159 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2160 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2161 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2162 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2163 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2164 passed any switches.
2165 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2169 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2172 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2173 at all for a long while.
2174 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2175 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2176 large chunks in the process.
2177 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2178 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2179 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2184 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2187 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2189 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2194 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2197 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2198 that don't always have the same files in them.
2199 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2200 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2201 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2205 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2209 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2210 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2211 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2212 updating 27 man pages.
2213 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2214 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2215 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2216 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2217 programs act on. (#25247)
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2221 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2225 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2226 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2227 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2228 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2229 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2230 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2235 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2242 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2249 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2252 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2256 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2262 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2265 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2266 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2267 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2268 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2269 package by accident.
2270 * Is version 1.0 next?
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2274 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2277 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2278 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2282 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2285 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2286 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2287 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2288 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2289 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2291 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2296 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2299 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2300 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2304 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2307 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2311 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2314 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2315 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2320 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2326 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2329 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2330 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2335 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2341 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2344 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2345 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2346 past week. Thanks, guys!
2348 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2349 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2350 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2351 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2352 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2353 would do in the same situation.
2354 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2355 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2357 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2359 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2360 permissions changed.
2361 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2362 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2363 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2364 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2365 files are treated identically.
2366 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2367 * Minor man page fixes.
2368 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2369 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2370 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2374 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2377 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2378 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2379 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2380 use -X multiple times, too.
2381 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2382 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2386 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2389 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2390 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2394 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2397 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2401 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2404 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2405 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2406 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2407 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2408 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2409 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2410 shape if you're starting a new package.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2414 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2417 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2421 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2424 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2425 because of missing symlinks.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2429 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2435 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2438 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2439 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2440 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2441 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2442 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2444 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2445 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2449 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2451 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2452 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2453 to be changed after the fact :-)
2454 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2458 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2461 no version string after the -V.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2465 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2467 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2468 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2473 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2476 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2480 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2483 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2484 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2485 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2486 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2487 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2488 I always welcome corrections!
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2492 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2498 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2501 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2502 * Documented this new switch.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2506 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2509 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2510 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2511 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2512 no packages use the old behavior.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2516 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2519 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2520 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2524 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2527 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2531 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2537 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2540 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2544 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2547 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2548 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2549 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2553 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2559 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2562 into the source package by accident.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2566 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2569 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2570 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2571 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2572 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2573 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2574 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2579 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2583 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2584 inspired to implement some of it.
2585 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2589 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2592 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2596 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2599 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2600 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2604 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2607 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2608 have done.) (#17598)
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2612 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2618 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2624 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2627 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2631 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2634 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2635 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2639 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2642 argument processor in perl.
2643 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2644 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2645 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2646 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2650 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2653 type directories. (#16933)
2654 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2655 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2656 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2657 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2658 are supported. (#16935)
2659 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2664 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2667 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2671 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2675 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2676 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2677 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2678 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2679 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2680 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2684 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2687 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2688 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2690 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2691 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2692 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2693 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2694 a given package, or -i or -a.
2695 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2696 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2697 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2698 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2699 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2700 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2701 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2702 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2703 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2705 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2706 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2707 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2711 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2714 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2715 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2720 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2723 does not have a section.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2727 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2730 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2731 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2732 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2736 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Fixed typo #16215.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2742 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2745 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2746 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2747 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2748 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2749 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2754 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2757 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2758 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2759 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2764 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2770 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2776 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2779 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2780 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2781 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2782 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2783 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2784 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2788 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2794 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2797 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2801 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2804 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2805 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2806 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2810 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2813 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2817 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2823 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2826 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2830 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2833 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2837 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2843 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2846 postinst, postrm, etc.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2850 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2856 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2859 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2860 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2861 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2862 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2863 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2867 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2870 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2871 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2875 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2878 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2882 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2885 installing package files into.
2886 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2891 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2895 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2899 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2905 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2908 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2912 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2915 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2916 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2917 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2918 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2922 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2924 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2925 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2926 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2927 multiple binary packages.
2928 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2929 should rebuild them with this version.
2930 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2934 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2937 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2941 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2944 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2948 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2951 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2952 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2953 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2954 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2955 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2956 debian/README.debian.
2957 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2958 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2959 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2960 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2961 in a few situations.)
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2965 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2971 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2977 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2980 * Fixed several man pages.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2984 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2987 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2988 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2992 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2995 is ready for general use.
2996 * Added man pages for all commands.
2997 * Multiple binary package support.
2998 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2999 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3000 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3002 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3003 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3004 auto-installed as parameters.
3005 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3007 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3010 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3011 the package build directory it is to act on.
3012 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3013 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3014 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3018 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3020 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3021 ready to replace debstd.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400