1 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
7 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
9 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
10 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
11 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
12 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
13 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
17 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
23 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
26 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
30 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
37 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
40 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
41 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
42 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
47 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
54 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
60 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
62 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
63 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
64 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
65 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
66 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
67 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
68 notice until v2 is complete.
69 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
70 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
71 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
72 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
73 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
74 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
76 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
77 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
78 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
79 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
83 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
89 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
96 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
99 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
103 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
110 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
113 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
114 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
115 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
116 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
121 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
124 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
125 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
126 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
131 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
134 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
135 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
139 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
142 just skip files that end in -\d+.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
146 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
149 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
153 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
160 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
162 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
163 depend on the build and install targets.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
167 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
170 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
174 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
181 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
187 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
193 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
196 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
197 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
198 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
199 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
200 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
201 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
203 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
204 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
205 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
206 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
207 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
208 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
209 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
213 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
219 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
225 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
228 right place. Closes: #55065
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
232 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
239 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Make all examples rules files executable.
242 * Copyright date updates.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
246 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
249 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
254 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
260 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
267 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
273 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
279 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
285 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
288 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
289 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
290 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
291 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
292 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
293 bits until all files have been registered.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
297 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_installmanpages:
300 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
301 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
302 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
303 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
304 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
305 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
306 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
307 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
308 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
309 otherwise change the result at all.
311 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
312 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
313 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
314 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
315 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
320 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
326 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
329 act on files that don't exist.
330 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
331 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
332 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
334 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
335 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
336 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
337 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
341 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
347 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
353 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
356 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
360 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
363 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
365 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
366 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
367 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
371 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
374 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
375 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
376 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
377 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
378 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
379 does not compress. Closes: #41733
380 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
382 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
384 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
388 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
395 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
401 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
407 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
410 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
414 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
420 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
426 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
429 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
430 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
431 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
432 I made some changes, though:
433 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
434 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
435 that is a clear violation of policy.
436 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
437 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
438 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
439 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
440 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
441 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
442 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
443 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
444 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
446 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
450 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
456 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
459 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
463 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
466 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
467 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
472 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
478 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
485 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
488 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
489 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
490 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
491 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
492 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
493 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
494 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
504 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
508 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
509 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
513 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
519 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
522 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
526 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
529 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
530 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
534 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
536 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
541 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
545 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
549 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
551 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
552 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
553 for the dependancies to be generated.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
557 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
560 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
564 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
567 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
568 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
569 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
574 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
577 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
578 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
582 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
588 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
594 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
597 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
601 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
607 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
609 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
610 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
611 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
612 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
613 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
614 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
615 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
616 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
617 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
618 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
619 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
620 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
621 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
625 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
627 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
628 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
629 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
631 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
632 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
633 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
634 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
635 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
636 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
638 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
639 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
646 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
650 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
657 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
659 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
660 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
665 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
668 for building debhelper.
669 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
673 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
680 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Fixed makefile commit target.
683 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
687 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
690 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
691 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
692 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
693 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
694 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
695 it's always available.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
699 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
702 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
703 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
704 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
708 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
711 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
712 modules. (Closes: #42171)
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
716 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
722 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
725 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
729 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
735 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
738 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
739 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
740 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
744 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
747 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
752 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
755 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
756 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
758 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
759 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
763 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
769 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
775 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
777 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
778 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
782 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
785 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
786 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
788 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
795 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
796 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
797 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
804 things if CDPATH is set.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
814 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
817 seems to make sense for the transition.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
821 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
824 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
829 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
832 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
833 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
837 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
840 that version. (Closes: #40589)
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
844 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
846 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
847 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
848 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
849 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
850 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
854 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
860 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
863 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
864 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
865 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
866 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
867 * debhelper.1: documented this.
868 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
869 current compatability level is equal to that number.
870 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
871 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
872 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
877 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
879 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
880 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
881 * README: mention doc/v2
882 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
883 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
887 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
889 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
890 be using this script RSN.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
894 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
897 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
898 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
899 more than 1 init script.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
903 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
906 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
910 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Changed perl version detection.
913 * Changed call to find.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
917 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
920 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
922 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
927 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Really include dh_installpam.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
933 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
936 * Wrote man page for same.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
940 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
943 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
944 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
949 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
956 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
959 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
960 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
961 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
966 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
969 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
970 well. (Closes: 38900)
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
974 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
977 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
978 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
982 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
988 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
995 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1001 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1004 help from Julian Gilbey.
1005 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1006 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1007 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1008 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1009 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1010 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1011 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1016 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1022 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1029 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1035 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1041 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1044 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1048 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1051 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1055 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1058 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1062 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1068 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1071 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1075 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1081 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1087 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1090 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1091 may be deleted. (#35845)
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1095 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Various man page enhancements.
1098 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1103 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1106 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1107 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1111 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1114 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1115 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1116 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1118 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1119 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1124 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1130 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Another very minor typo fix.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1136 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Very minor typo fix.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1142 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1145 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1146 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1150 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1156 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1159 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1160 variables properly (#34850).
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1164 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1170 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1173 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1174 (automatically generated by build process).
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1178 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1180 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1184 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1187 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1188 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1190 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1194 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1197 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1201 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * README: minor typo fix.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1207 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1210 leave it at that. :-)
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1214 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1220 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1226 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1229 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1230 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1231 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1235 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1238 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1242 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1245 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1249 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1252 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1253 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1254 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1255 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1259 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1262 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1263 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1264 Craig Small for spotting this.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1268 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1271 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1272 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1276 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1282 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1285 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1289 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1291 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1292 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1293 working on the last version of debhelper.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1297 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1300 being made. (#23255)
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1304 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1310 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1313 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1317 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1320 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1321 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1322 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1323 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1327 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1330 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1331 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1332 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1333 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1335 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1336 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1338 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1343 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1349 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1355 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1358 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1359 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1360 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1361 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1362 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1363 suidregister actually supports it.
1364 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1365 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1369 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1376 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1379 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1380 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1381 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1382 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1383 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1384 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1385 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1389 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1391 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1392 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1396 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1399 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1400 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1401 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1402 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1406 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1409 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1411 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1412 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1413 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1414 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1415 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1416 effect, either. (#30118)
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1420 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1426 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1429 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1430 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1434 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1440 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1443 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1444 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1445 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1446 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1450 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1453 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1454 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1458 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1464 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1467 packages, painlessly.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1471 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1477 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1483 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1489 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * The perl conversion is complete.
1493 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1495 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1496 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1497 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1502 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1505 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1506 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1507 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1511 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1514 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1516 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1518 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1519 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1523 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1526 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1527 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1531 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1537 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1540 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1541 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1542 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1543 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1544 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1548 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1551 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1552 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1553 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1554 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1558 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1561 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1565 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1568 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1569 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1570 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1571 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1572 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1573 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1574 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1575 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1579 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1585 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1588 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1589 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1590 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1595 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1598 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1602 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1605 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1609 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1612 sections of shared libraries.
1613 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1614 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1615 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1616 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1617 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1618 things you don't want them to.
1619 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1620 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1624 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1627 shared libraries. (#26414)
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1631 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1633 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1634 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1635 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1636 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1640 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1644 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1646 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1647 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1648 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1649 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1650 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1654 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1657 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1664 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1665 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1670 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1673 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1677 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1680 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1681 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1682 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1683 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1684 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1686 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1687 remove debian/files properly.
1688 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1689 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1690 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1691 * Removed bogus menu file.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1695 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1698 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1702 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1705 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1706 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1707 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1708 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1709 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1710 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1714 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1717 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1718 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1719 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1720 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1724 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1731 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1734 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1735 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1737 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1738 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1739 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1740 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1741 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1742 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1746 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1749 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1750 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1751 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1752 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1753 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1754 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1755 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1756 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1757 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1758 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1759 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1760 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1761 passed any switches.
1762 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1766 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1769 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1770 at all for a long while.
1771 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1772 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1773 large chunks in the process.
1774 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1775 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1776 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1781 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1784 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1786 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1791 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1794 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1795 that don't always have the same files in them.
1796 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1797 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1798 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1802 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1806 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1807 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1808 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1809 updating 27 man pages.
1810 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1811 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1812 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1813 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1814 programs act on. (#25247)
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1818 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1822 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1823 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1824 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1825 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1826 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1827 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1832 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1839 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1846 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1849 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1853 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1859 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1862 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1863 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1864 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1865 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1866 package by accident.
1867 * Is version 1.0 next?
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1871 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1874 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1875 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1879 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1882 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1883 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1884 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1885 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1886 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1888 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1893 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1896 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1897 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1901 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1904 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1908 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1911 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1912 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1917 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1923 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1926 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1927 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1932 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1938 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1941 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1942 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1943 past week. Thanks, guys!
1945 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1946 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1947 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1948 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1949 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1950 would do in the same situation.
1951 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1952 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1954 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1956 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1957 permissions changed.
1958 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1959 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1960 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1961 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1962 files are treated identically.
1963 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1964 * Minor man page fixes.
1965 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1966 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1967 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1971 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1974 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1975 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1976 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1977 use -X multiple times, too.
1978 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1979 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1983 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1986 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1987 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1991 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1994 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1998 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2001 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2002 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2003 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2004 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2005 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2006 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2007 shape if you're starting a new package.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2011 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2014 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2018 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2021 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2022 because of missing symlinks.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2026 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2032 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2035 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2036 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2037 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2038 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2039 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2041 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2042 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2046 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2048 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2049 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2050 to be changed after the fact :-)
2051 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2055 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2058 no version string after the -V.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2062 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2064 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2065 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2070 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2073 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2077 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2080 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2081 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2082 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2083 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2084 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2085 I always welcome corrections!
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2089 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2095 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2098 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2099 * Documented this new switch.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2103 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2106 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2107 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2108 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2109 no packages use the old behavior.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2113 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2116 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2117 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2121 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2124 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2128 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2134 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2137 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2141 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2144 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2145 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2146 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2150 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2156 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2159 into the source package by accident.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2163 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2166 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2167 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2168 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2169 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2170 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2171 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2176 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2180 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2181 inspired to implement some of it.
2182 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2186 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2189 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2193 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2196 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2197 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2201 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2204 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2205 have done.) (#17598)
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2209 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2215 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2221 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2224 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2228 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2231 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2232 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2236 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2239 argument processor in perl.
2240 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2241 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2242 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2243 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2247 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2250 type directories. (#16933)
2251 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2252 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2253 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2254 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2255 are supported. (#16935)
2256 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2261 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2264 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2268 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2272 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2273 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2274 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2275 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2276 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2277 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2281 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2284 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2285 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2287 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2288 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2289 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2290 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2291 a given package, or -i or -a.
2292 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2293 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2294 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2295 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2296 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2297 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2298 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2299 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2300 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2302 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2303 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2304 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2308 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2311 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2312 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2317 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2320 does not have a section.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2324 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2327 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2328 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2329 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2333 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Fixed typo #16215.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2339 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2342 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2343 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2344 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2345 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2346 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2351 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2354 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2355 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2356 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2361 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2367 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2373 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2376 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2377 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2378 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2379 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2380 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2381 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2385 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2391 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2394 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2398 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2401 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2402 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2403 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2407 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2410 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2414 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2420 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2423 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2427 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2430 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2434 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2440 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2443 postinst, postrm, etc.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2447 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2453 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2456 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2457 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2458 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2459 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2460 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2464 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2467 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2468 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2472 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2475 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2479 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2482 installing package files into.
2483 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2488 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2492 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2496 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2502 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2505 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2509 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2512 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2513 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2514 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2515 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2519 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2521 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2522 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2523 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2524 multiple binary packages.
2525 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2526 should rebuild them with this version.
2527 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2531 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2534 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2538 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2541 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2545 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2548 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2549 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2550 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2551 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2552 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2553 debian/README.debian.
2554 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2555 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2556 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2557 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2558 in a few situations.)
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2562 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2568 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2574 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2577 * Fixed several man pages.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2581 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2584 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2585 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2589 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2592 is ready for general use.
2593 * Added man pages for all commands.
2594 * Multiple binary package support.
2595 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2596 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2597 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2599 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2600 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2601 auto-installed as parameters.
2602 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2604 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2607 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2608 the package build directory it is to act on.
2609 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2610 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2611 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2615 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2617 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2618 ready to replace debstd.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400