1 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
5 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
6 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
7 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
8 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
9 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
10 but is mildly deprecated.
11 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
12 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
13 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
14 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
15 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
16 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
17 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
19 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
20 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
21 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
22 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
23 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
24 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
25 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
26 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
27 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
28 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
30 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
31 variable names, pod man pages).
32 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
33 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
34 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
36 * Tonnes of changes here and there to mark v3 as done. I don't have a
37 v4 planned at this time. All the big changes are done.
38 *** move man pages into programs as pod docs ***
39 *** build all my packages using new version, and ditching dh_installmanpages
40 mainly as a regression test..
41 *** fix aj's bug, sigh ***
42 *** dh_installinit should install defaults files ***
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
46 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
52 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
59 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
62 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
66 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
68 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
69 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
70 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
74 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
76 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
77 they were previously ignored.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
81 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
83 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
84 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
88 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
90 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
91 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
92 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
96 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
98 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
102 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
104 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
105 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
109 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
111 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
112 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
113 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
114 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
115 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
116 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
117 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
118 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
119 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
120 it is an obsolete program.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
124 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
126 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
130 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
134 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
136 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
140 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
142 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
144 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
146 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
150 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
156 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
158 * typo: Closes, #78567
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
162 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
168 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
174 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
176 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
177 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
178 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
179 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
180 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
181 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
185 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
188 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
193 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
196 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
197 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
198 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
199 backwards-compatability.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
203 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
205 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
206 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
207 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
208 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
209 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
210 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
211 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
213 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
214 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
215 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
217 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
219 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
220 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
221 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
222 should now be raised to severity important..
223 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
224 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
228 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
231 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
236 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
238 * Typo, Closes: #77441
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
242 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Completed the fix from the last version.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
248 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
254 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
256 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
261 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
264 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
265 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
266 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
267 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
271 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
277 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
280 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
281 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
282 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
283 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
284 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
285 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
290 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
293 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
297 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
303 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
306 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
311 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
314 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
315 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
316 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
317 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
321 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
325 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
328 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
331 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
332 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
335 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
337 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
338 the TODO entry about it.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
342 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
349 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
352 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
353 prevent that. Closes: #73052
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
357 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Typo, Closes: #72932
360 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
361 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
362 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
363 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
367 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
373 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
380 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
383 (this appears to be logal).
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
387 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
390 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
391 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
392 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
393 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
397 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
403 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
405 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
406 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
407 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
408 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
409 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
413 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
419 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
422 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
426 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
433 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
436 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
437 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
438 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
443 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
450 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
456 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
458 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
459 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
460 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
461 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
462 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
463 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
464 notice until v2 is complete.
465 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
466 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
467 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
468 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
469 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
470 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
472 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
473 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
474 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
475 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
479 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
485 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
492 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
495 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
499 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
506 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
509 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
510 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
511 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
512 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
517 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
520 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
521 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
522 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
527 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
530 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
531 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
535 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
538 just skip files that end in -\d+.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
542 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
545 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
549 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
556 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
558 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
559 depend on the build and install targets.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
566 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
577 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
583 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
589 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
592 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
593 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
594 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
595 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
596 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
597 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
599 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
600 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
601 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
602 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
603 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
604 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
605 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
609 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
615 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
621 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
624 right place. Closes: #55065
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
628 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
635 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Make all examples rules files executable.
638 * Copyright date updates.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
642 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
645 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
650 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
656 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
663 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
669 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
675 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
681 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
684 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
685 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
686 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
687 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
688 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
689 bits until all files have been registered.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
693 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_installmanpages:
696 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
697 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
698 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
699 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
700 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
701 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
702 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
703 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
704 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
705 otherwise change the result at all.
707 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
708 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
709 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
710 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
711 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
716 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
722 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
725 act on files that don't exist.
726 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
727 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
728 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
730 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
731 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
732 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
733 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
737 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
743 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
749 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
752 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
756 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
759 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
761 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
762 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
763 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
767 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
770 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
771 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
772 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
773 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
774 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
775 does not compress. Closes: #41733
776 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
778 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
780 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
784 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
791 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
797 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
803 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
806 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
810 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
816 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
822 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
825 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
826 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
827 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
828 I made some changes, though:
829 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
830 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
831 that is a clear violation of policy.
832 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
833 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
834 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
835 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
836 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
837 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
838 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
839 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
840 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
842 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
846 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
852 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
855 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
859 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
862 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
863 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
868 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
874 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
881 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
884 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
885 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
886 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
887 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
888 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
889 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
890 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
894 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
900 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
904 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
905 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
909 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
915 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
918 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
922 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
925 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
926 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
930 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
932 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
937 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
941 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
945 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
947 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
948 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
949 for the dependancies to be generated.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
953 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
956 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
960 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
963 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
964 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
965 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
970 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
973 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
974 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
978 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
984 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
990 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
993 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
997 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1003 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1006 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1007 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1008 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1009 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1010 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1011 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1012 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1013 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1014 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1015 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1016 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1017 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1021 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1024 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1025 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1027 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1028 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1029 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1030 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1031 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1032 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1034 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1035 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1039 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1042 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1046 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1053 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1056 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1061 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1064 for building debhelper.
1065 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1069 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1076 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1079 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1083 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1086 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1087 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1088 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1089 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1090 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1091 it's always available.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1095 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1098 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1099 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1100 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1104 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1107 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1108 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1112 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1118 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1121 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1125 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1131 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1134 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1135 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1136 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1140 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1143 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1148 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1151 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1152 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1154 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1155 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1165 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1171 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1174 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1178 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1181 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1182 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1184 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1188 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1191 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1192 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1193 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1200 things if CDPATH is set.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1204 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1210 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1213 seems to make sense for the transition.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1217 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1220 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1225 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1228 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1229 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1233 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1236 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1240 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1243 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1244 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1245 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1246 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1250 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1256 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1259 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1260 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1261 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1262 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1263 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1264 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1265 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1266 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1267 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1268 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1273 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1276 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1277 * README: mention doc/v2
1278 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1279 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1283 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1285 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1286 be using this script RSN.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1290 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1293 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1294 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1295 more than 1 init script.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1299 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1302 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1306 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Changed perl version detection.
1309 * Changed call to find.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1313 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1316 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1318 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1323 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Really include dh_installpam.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1329 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1332 * Wrote man page for same.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1336 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1339 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1340 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1345 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1352 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1355 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1356 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1357 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1358 x bit was being set!
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1362 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1365 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1366 well. (Closes: 38900)
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1370 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1373 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1374 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1378 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1384 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1391 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1397 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1400 help from Julian Gilbey.
1401 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1402 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1403 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1404 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1405 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1406 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1407 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1412 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1418 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1425 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1431 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1437 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1440 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1444 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1447 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1451 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1454 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1458 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1464 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1467 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1471 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1477 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1483 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1486 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1487 may be deleted. (#35845)
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1491 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Various man page enhancements.
1494 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1499 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1502 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1503 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1507 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1510 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1511 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1512 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1514 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1515 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1520 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1526 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Another very minor typo fix.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1532 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Very minor typo fix.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1538 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1541 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1542 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1546 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1552 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1555 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1556 variables properly (#34850).
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1560 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1566 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1569 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1570 (automatically generated by build process).
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1574 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1576 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1580 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1583 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1584 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1586 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1590 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1593 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1597 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * README: minor typo fix.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1603 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1606 leave it at that. :-)
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1610 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1616 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1622 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1625 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1626 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1627 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1631 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1634 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1638 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1641 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1645 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1648 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1649 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1650 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1651 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1655 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1658 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1659 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1660 Craig Small for spotting this.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1664 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1667 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1668 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1672 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1678 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1681 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1685 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1687 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1688 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1689 working on the last version of debhelper.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1693 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1696 being made. (#23255)
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1700 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1709 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1713 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1716 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1717 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1718 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1719 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1723 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1726 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1727 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1728 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1729 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1731 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1732 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1734 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1739 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1745 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1751 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1754 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1755 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1756 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1757 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1758 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1759 suidregister actually supports it.
1760 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1761 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1765 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1772 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1775 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1776 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1777 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1778 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1779 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1780 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1781 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1785 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1787 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1788 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1792 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1795 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1796 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1797 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1798 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1802 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1805 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1807 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1808 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1809 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1810 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1811 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1812 effect, either. (#30118)
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1816 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1822 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1825 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1826 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1830 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1836 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1839 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1840 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1841 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1842 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1846 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1849 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1850 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1854 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1860 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1863 packages, painlessly.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1867 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1873 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1879 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1885 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * The perl conversion is complete.
1889 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1891 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1892 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1893 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1898 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1901 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1902 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1903 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1907 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1910 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1912 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1914 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1915 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1919 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1922 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1923 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1927 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1933 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1936 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1937 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1938 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1939 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1940 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1944 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1947 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1948 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1949 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1950 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1954 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1957 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1961 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1964 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1965 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1966 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1967 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1968 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1969 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1970 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1971 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1975 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1981 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1984 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1985 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1986 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1991 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1994 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1998 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2001 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2005 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2008 sections of shared libraries.
2009 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2010 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2011 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2012 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2013 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2014 things you don't want them to.
2015 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2016 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2020 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2023 shared libraries. (#26414)
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2027 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2029 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2030 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2031 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2032 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2036 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2040 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2042 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2043 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2044 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2045 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2046 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2050 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2053 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2057 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2060 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2061 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2066 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2069 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2073 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2076 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2077 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2078 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2079 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2080 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2082 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2083 remove debian/files properly.
2084 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2085 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2086 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2087 * Removed bogus menu file.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2091 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2094 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2098 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2101 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2102 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2103 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2104 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2105 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2106 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2110 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2113 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2114 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2115 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2116 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2120 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2127 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2130 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2131 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2133 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2134 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2135 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2136 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2137 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2138 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2142 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2145 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2146 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2147 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2148 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2149 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2150 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2151 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2152 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2153 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2154 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2155 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2156 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2157 passed any switches.
2158 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2162 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2165 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2166 at all for a long while.
2167 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2168 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2169 large chunks in the process.
2170 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2171 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2172 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2177 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2180 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2182 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2187 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2190 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2191 that don't always have the same files in them.
2192 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2193 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2194 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2198 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2202 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2203 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2204 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2205 updating 27 man pages.
2206 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2207 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2208 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2209 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2210 programs act on. (#25247)
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2214 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2218 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2219 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2220 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2221 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2222 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2223 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2228 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2235 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2242 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2245 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2249 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2255 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2258 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2259 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2260 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2261 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2262 package by accident.
2263 * Is version 1.0 next?
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2267 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2270 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2271 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2275 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2278 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2279 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2280 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2281 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2282 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2284 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2289 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2292 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2293 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2297 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2300 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2304 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2307 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2308 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2313 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2319 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2322 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2323 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2328 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2334 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2337 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2338 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2339 past week. Thanks, guys!
2341 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2342 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2343 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2344 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2345 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2346 would do in the same situation.
2347 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2348 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2350 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2352 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2353 permissions changed.
2354 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2355 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2356 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2357 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2358 files are treated identically.
2359 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2360 * Minor man page fixes.
2361 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2362 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2363 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2367 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2370 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2371 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2372 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2373 use -X multiple times, too.
2374 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2375 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2379 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2382 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2383 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2387 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2390 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2394 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2397 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2398 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2399 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2400 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2401 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2402 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2403 shape if you're starting a new package.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2407 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2410 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2414 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2417 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2418 because of missing symlinks.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2422 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2428 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2431 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2432 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2433 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2434 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2435 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2437 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2438 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2442 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2444 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2445 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2446 to be changed after the fact :-)
2447 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2451 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2454 no version string after the -V.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2458 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2460 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2461 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2466 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2469 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2473 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2476 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2477 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2478 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2479 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2480 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2481 I always welcome corrections!
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2485 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2491 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2494 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2495 * Documented this new switch.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2499 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2502 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2503 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2504 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2505 no packages use the old behavior.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2509 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2512 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2513 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2517 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2520 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2524 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2530 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2533 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2537 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2540 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2541 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2542 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2546 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2552 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2555 into the source package by accident.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2559 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2562 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2563 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2564 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2565 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2566 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2567 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2572 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2576 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2577 inspired to implement some of it.
2578 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2582 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2585 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2589 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2592 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2593 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2597 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2600 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2601 have done.) (#17598)
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2605 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2611 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2617 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2620 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2624 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2627 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2628 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2632 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2635 argument processor in perl.
2636 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2637 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2638 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2639 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2643 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2646 type directories. (#16933)
2647 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2648 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2649 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2650 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2651 are supported. (#16935)
2652 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2657 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2660 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2664 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2668 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2669 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2670 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2671 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2672 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2673 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2677 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2680 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2681 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2683 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2684 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2685 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2686 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2687 a given package, or -i or -a.
2688 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2689 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2690 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2691 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2692 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2693 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2694 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2695 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2696 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2698 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2699 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2700 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2704 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2707 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2708 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2713 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2716 does not have a section.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2720 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2723 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2724 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2725 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2729 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Fixed typo #16215.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2735 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2738 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2739 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2740 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2741 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2742 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2747 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2750 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2751 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2752 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2757 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2763 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2769 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2772 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2773 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2774 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2775 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2776 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2777 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2781 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2787 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2790 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2794 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2797 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2798 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2799 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2803 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2806 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2810 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2816 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2819 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2823 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2826 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2830 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2836 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2839 postinst, postrm, etc.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2843 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2849 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2852 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2853 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2854 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2855 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2856 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2860 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2863 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2864 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2868 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2871 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2875 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2878 installing package files into.
2879 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2884 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2888 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2892 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2898 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2901 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2905 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2908 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2909 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2910 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2911 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2915 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2917 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2918 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2919 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2920 multiple binary packages.
2921 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2922 should rebuild them with this version.
2923 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2927 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2930 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2934 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2937 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2941 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2944 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2945 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2946 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2947 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2948 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2949 debian/README.debian.
2950 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2951 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2952 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2953 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2954 in a few situations.)
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2958 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2964 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2970 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2973 * Fixed several man pages.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2977 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2980 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2981 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2985 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2988 is ready for general use.
2989 * Added man pages for all commands.
2990 * Multiple binary package support.
2991 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2992 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2993 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2995 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2996 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2997 auto-installed as parameters.
2998 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3000 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3003 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3004 the package build directory it is to act on.
3005 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3006 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3007 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3011 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3013 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3014 ready to replace debstd.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400