1 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
5 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
6 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
7 backwards-compatability.
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
11 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
13 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
14 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
15 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
16 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
17 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
18 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
19 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
21 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
22 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
23 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
25 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
27 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
28 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
29 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
30 should now be raised to severity important..
31 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
32 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
36 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
39 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
44 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Typo, Closes: #77441
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
50 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Completed the fix from the last version.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
56 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
62 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
64 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
69 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
72 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
73 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
74 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
75 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
79 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
85 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
88 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
89 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
90 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
91 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
92 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
93 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
98 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
101 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
105 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
111 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
114 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
119 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
121 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
122 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
123 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
124 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
125 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
129 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
133 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
136 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
139 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
140 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
143 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
145 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
146 the TODO entry about it.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
150 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
157 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
160 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
161 prevent that. Closes: #73052
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
165 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Typo, Closes: #72932
168 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
169 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
170 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
171 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
175 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
181 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
188 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
191 (this appears to be logal).
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
195 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
198 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
199 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
200 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
201 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
205 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
211 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
213 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
214 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
215 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
216 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
217 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
221 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
227 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
229 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
230 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
234 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
241 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
244 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
245 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
246 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
251 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
258 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
264 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
266 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
267 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
268 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
269 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
270 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
271 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
272 notice until v2 is complete.
273 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
274 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
275 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
276 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
277 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
278 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
280 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
281 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
282 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
283 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
287 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
293 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
300 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
303 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
307 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
314 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
317 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
318 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
319 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
320 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
325 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
328 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
329 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
330 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
335 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
338 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
339 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
343 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
346 just skip files that end in -\d+.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
350 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
353 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
357 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
364 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
366 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
367 depend on the build and install targets.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
371 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
374 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
378 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
385 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
391 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
397 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
400 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
401 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
402 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
403 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
404 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
405 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
407 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
408 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
409 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
410 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
411 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
412 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
413 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
417 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
423 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
429 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
432 right place. Closes: #55065
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
436 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
443 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Make all examples rules files executable.
446 * Copyright date updates.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
450 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
453 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
458 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
464 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
471 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
477 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
483 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
489 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
492 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
493 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
494 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
495 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
496 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
497 bits until all files have been registered.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
501 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_installmanpages:
504 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
505 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
506 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
507 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
508 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
509 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
510 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
511 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
512 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
513 otherwise change the result at all.
515 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
516 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
517 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
518 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
519 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
524 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
530 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
533 act on files that don't exist.
534 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
535 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
536 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
538 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
539 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
540 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
541 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
545 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
551 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
557 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
560 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
564 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
567 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
569 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
570 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
571 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
575 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
578 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
579 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
580 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
581 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
582 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
583 does not compress. Closes: #41733
584 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
586 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
588 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
592 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
599 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
605 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
611 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
614 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
618 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
624 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
630 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
633 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
634 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
635 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
636 I made some changes, though:
637 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
638 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
639 that is a clear violation of policy.
640 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
641 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
642 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
643 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
644 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
645 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
646 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
647 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
648 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
650 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
654 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
660 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
663 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
667 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
670 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
671 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
676 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
682 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
689 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
692 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
693 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
694 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
695 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
696 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
697 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
698 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
702 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
708 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
712 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
713 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
717 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
723 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
726 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
730 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
733 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
734 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
738 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
740 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
745 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
749 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
753 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
755 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
756 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
757 for the dependancies to be generated.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
761 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
764 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
771 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
772 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
773 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
778 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
781 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
782 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
798 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
801 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
805 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
811 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
813 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
814 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
815 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
816 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
817 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
818 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
819 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
820 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
821 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
822 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
823 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
824 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
825 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
829 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
831 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
832 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
833 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
835 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
836 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
837 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
838 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
839 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
840 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
842 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
843 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
847 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
850 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
854 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
861 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
863 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
864 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
869 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
872 for building debhelper.
873 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
884 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Fixed makefile commit target.
887 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
891 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
894 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
895 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
896 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
897 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
898 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
899 it's always available.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
903 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
906 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
907 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
908 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
912 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
915 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
916 modules. (Closes: #42171)
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
920 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
926 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
929 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
933 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
939 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
942 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
943 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
944 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
948 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
951 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
956 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
959 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
960 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
962 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
963 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
967 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
973 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
979 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
981 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
982 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
986 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
989 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
990 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
992 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
999 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1000 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1001 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1005 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1008 things if CDPATH is set.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1012 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1021 seems to make sense for the transition.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1025 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1028 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1033 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1036 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1037 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1041 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1044 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1048 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1051 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1052 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1053 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1054 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1058 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1064 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1067 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1068 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1069 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1070 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1071 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1072 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1073 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1074 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1075 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1076 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1081 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1084 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1085 * README: mention doc/v2
1086 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1087 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1091 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1093 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1094 be using this script RSN.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1098 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1101 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1102 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1103 more than 1 init script.
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1107 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1110 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1114 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Changed perl version detection.
1117 * Changed call to find.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1121 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1124 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1126 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1131 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Really include dh_installpam.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1137 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1140 * Wrote man page for same.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1144 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1147 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1148 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1153 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1160 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1163 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1164 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1165 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1166 x bit was being set!
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1170 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1173 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1174 well. (Closes: 38900)
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1178 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1181 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1182 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1186 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1192 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1199 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1205 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1208 help from Julian Gilbey.
1209 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1210 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1211 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1212 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1213 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1214 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1215 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1220 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1226 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1233 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1239 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1245 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1248 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1252 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1255 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1259 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1262 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1266 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1272 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1275 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1279 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1285 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1291 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1294 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1295 may be deleted. (#35845)
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1299 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Various man page enhancements.
1302 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1307 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1310 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1311 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1315 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1318 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1319 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1320 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1322 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1323 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1328 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1334 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Another very minor typo fix.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1340 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Very minor typo fix.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1346 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1349 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1350 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1354 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1360 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1363 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1364 variables properly (#34850).
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1368 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1374 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1377 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1378 (automatically generated by build process).
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1382 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1384 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1388 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1391 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1392 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1394 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1398 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1401 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1405 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * README: minor typo fix.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1411 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1414 leave it at that. :-)
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1418 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1424 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1430 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1433 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1434 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1435 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1439 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1442 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1446 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1449 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1453 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1456 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1457 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1458 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1459 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1463 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1466 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1467 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1468 Craig Small for spotting this.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1472 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1475 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1476 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1480 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1486 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1489 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1493 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1495 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1496 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1497 working on the last version of debhelper.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1501 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1504 being made. (#23255)
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1508 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1514 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1517 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1521 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1524 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1525 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1526 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1527 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1531 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1534 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1535 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1536 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1537 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1539 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1540 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1542 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1547 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1553 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1559 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1562 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1563 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1564 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1565 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1566 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1567 suidregister actually supports it.
1568 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1569 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1573 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1580 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1583 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1584 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1585 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1586 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1587 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1588 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1589 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1593 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1595 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1596 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1600 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1603 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1604 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1605 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1606 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1610 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1613 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1615 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1616 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1617 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1618 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1619 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1620 effect, either. (#30118)
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1624 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1630 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1633 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1634 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1638 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1644 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1647 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1648 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1649 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1650 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1654 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1657 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1658 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1662 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1668 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1671 packages, painlessly.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1675 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1681 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1687 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1693 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * The perl conversion is complete.
1697 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1699 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1700 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1701 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1709 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1710 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1711 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1715 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1718 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1720 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1722 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1723 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1727 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1730 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1731 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1735 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1741 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1744 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1745 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1746 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1747 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1748 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1752 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1755 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1756 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1757 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1758 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1762 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1765 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1769 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1772 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1773 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1774 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1775 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1776 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1777 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1778 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1779 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1783 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1789 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1792 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1793 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1794 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1799 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1802 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1806 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1809 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1813 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1816 sections of shared libraries.
1817 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1818 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1819 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1820 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1821 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1822 things you don't want them to.
1823 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1824 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1828 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1831 shared libraries. (#26414)
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1835 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1837 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1838 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1839 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1840 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1844 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1848 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1850 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1851 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1852 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1853 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1854 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1858 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1861 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1865 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1868 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1869 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1874 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1877 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1881 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1884 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1885 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1886 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1887 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1888 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1890 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1891 remove debian/files properly.
1892 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1893 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1894 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1895 * Removed bogus menu file.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1899 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1902 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1906 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1909 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1910 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1911 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1912 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1913 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1914 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1918 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1921 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1922 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1923 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1924 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1928 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1935 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1938 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1939 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1941 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1942 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1943 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1944 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1945 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1946 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1950 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1953 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1954 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1955 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1956 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1957 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1958 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1959 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1960 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1961 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1962 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1963 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1964 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1965 passed any switches.
1966 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1970 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1973 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1974 at all for a long while.
1975 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1976 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1977 large chunks in the process.
1978 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1979 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1980 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1985 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1988 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1990 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1995 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1998 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1999 that don't always have the same files in them.
2000 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2001 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2002 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2006 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2010 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2011 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2012 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2013 updating 27 man pages.
2014 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2015 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2016 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2017 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2018 programs act on. (#25247)
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2022 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2026 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2027 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2028 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2029 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2030 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2031 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2036 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2043 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2050 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2053 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2057 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2063 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2066 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2067 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2068 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2069 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2070 package by accident.
2071 * Is version 1.0 next?
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2075 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2078 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2079 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2083 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2086 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2087 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2088 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2089 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2090 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2092 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2097 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2100 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2101 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2105 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2108 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2112 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2115 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2116 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2121 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2127 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2130 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2131 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2136 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2142 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2145 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2146 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2147 past week. Thanks, guys!
2149 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2150 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2151 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2152 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2153 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2154 would do in the same situation.
2155 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2156 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2158 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2160 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2161 permissions changed.
2162 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2163 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2164 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2165 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2166 files are treated identically.
2167 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2168 * Minor man page fixes.
2169 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2170 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2171 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2175 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2178 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2179 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2180 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2181 use -X multiple times, too.
2182 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2183 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2187 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2190 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2191 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2195 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2198 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2202 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2205 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2206 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2207 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2208 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2209 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2210 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2211 shape if you're starting a new package.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2215 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2218 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2222 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2225 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2226 because of missing symlinks.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2230 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2236 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2239 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2240 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2241 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2242 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2243 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2245 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2246 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2250 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2252 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2253 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2254 to be changed after the fact :-)
2255 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2259 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2262 no version string after the -V.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2266 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2268 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2269 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2274 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2277 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2281 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2284 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2285 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2286 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2287 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2288 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2289 I always welcome corrections!
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2293 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2299 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2302 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2303 * Documented this new switch.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2307 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2310 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2311 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2312 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2313 no packages use the old behavior.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2317 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2320 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2321 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2325 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2328 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2332 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2338 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2341 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2345 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2348 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2349 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2350 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2354 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2360 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2363 into the source package by accident.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2367 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2370 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2371 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2372 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2373 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2374 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2375 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2380 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2384 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2385 inspired to implement some of it.
2386 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2390 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2393 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2397 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2400 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2401 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2405 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2408 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2409 have done.) (#17598)
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2413 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2419 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2425 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2428 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2432 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2435 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2436 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2440 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2443 argument processor in perl.
2444 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2445 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2446 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2447 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2451 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2454 type directories. (#16933)
2455 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2456 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2457 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2458 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2459 are supported. (#16935)
2460 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2465 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2468 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2472 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2476 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2477 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2478 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2479 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2480 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2481 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2485 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2488 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2489 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2491 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2492 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2493 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2494 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2495 a given package, or -i or -a.
2496 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2497 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2498 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2499 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2500 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2501 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2502 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2503 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2504 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2506 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2507 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2508 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2512 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2515 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2516 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2521 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2524 does not have a section.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2528 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2531 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2532 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2533 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2537 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Fixed typo #16215.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2543 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2546 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2547 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2548 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2549 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2550 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2555 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2558 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2559 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2560 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2565 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2571 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2577 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2580 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2581 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2582 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2583 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2584 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2585 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2589 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2595 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2598 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2602 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2605 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2606 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2607 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2611 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2614 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2618 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2624 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2627 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2631 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2634 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2638 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2644 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2647 postinst, postrm, etc.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2651 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2657 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2660 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2661 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2662 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2663 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2664 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2668 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2671 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2672 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2676 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2679 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2683 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2686 installing package files into.
2687 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2692 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2696 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2700 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2706 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2709 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2713 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2716 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2717 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2718 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2719 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2723 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2725 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2726 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2727 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2728 multiple binary packages.
2729 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2730 should rebuild them with this version.
2731 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2735 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2738 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2742 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2745 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2749 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2752 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2753 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2754 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2755 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2756 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2757 debian/README.debian.
2758 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2759 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2760 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2761 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2762 in a few situations.)
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2766 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2772 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2778 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2781 * Fixed several man pages.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2785 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2788 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2789 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2793 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2796 is ready for general use.
2797 * Added man pages for all commands.
2798 * Multiple binary package support.
2799 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2800 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2801 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2803 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2804 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2805 auto-installed as parameters.
2806 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2808 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2811 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2812 the package build directory it is to act on.
2813 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2814 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2815 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2819 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2821 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2822 ready to replace debstd.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400