1 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
6 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
7 I made some changes, though:
8 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
9 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
10 that is a clear violation of policy.
11 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
12 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
13 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
14 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
15 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
16 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
17 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brandon's
18 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
19 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
21 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
25 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
31 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
34 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
38 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
41 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
42 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
47 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
53 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
60 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
63 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
64 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
65 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
66 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
67 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
68 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
69 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
73 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
79 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
83 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
84 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
88 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
94 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
97 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
101 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
104 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
105 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
109 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
111 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
116 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
120 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
124 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
126 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
127 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
128 for the dependancies to be generated.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
132 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
135 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
139 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
142 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
143 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
144 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
149 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
152 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
153 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
157 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
163 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
169 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
172 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
176 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
182 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
184 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
185 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
186 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
187 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
188 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
189 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
190 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
191 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
192 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
193 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
194 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
195 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
196 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
200 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
202 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
203 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
204 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
206 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
207 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
208 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
209 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
210 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
211 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
213 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
214 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
218 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
221 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
225 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
232 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
234 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
235 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
240 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
243 for building debhelper.
244 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
248 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
255 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Fixed makefile commit target.
258 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
262 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
265 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
266 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
267 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
268 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
269 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
270 it's always available.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
277 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
278 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
279 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
283 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
286 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
287 modules. (Closes: #42171)
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
291 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
297 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
300 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
304 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
310 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
313 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
314 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
315 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
319 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
322 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
327 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
330 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
331 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
333 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
334 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
338 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
344 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
350 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
352 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
353 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
357 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
360 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
361 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
363 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
367 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
370 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
371 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
372 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
376 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
379 things if CDPATH is set.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
383 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
389 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
392 seems to make sense for the transition.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
396 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
399 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
404 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
407 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
408 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
412 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
415 that version. (Closes: #40589)
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
419 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
421 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
422 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
423 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
424 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
425 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
429 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
435 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
438 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
439 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
440 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
441 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
442 * debhelper.1: documented this.
443 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
444 current compatability level is equal to that number.
445 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
446 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
447 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
452 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
454 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
455 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
456 * README: mention doc/v2
457 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
458 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
462 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
464 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
465 be using this script RSN.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
469 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
472 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
473 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
474 more than 1 init script.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
478 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
481 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
485 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Changed perl version detection.
488 * Changed call to find.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
492 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
495 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
497 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
502 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Really include dh_installpam.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
508 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
511 * Wrote man page for same.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
515 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
518 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
519 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
524 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
531 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
534 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
535 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
536 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
541 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
544 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
545 well. (Closes: 38900)
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
549 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
552 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
553 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
557 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
563 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
570 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
576 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
578 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
579 help from Julian Gilbey.
580 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
581 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
582 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
583 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
584 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
585 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
586 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
591 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
597 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
599 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
604 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
610 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
616 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
619 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
623 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
626 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
630 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
633 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
637 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
643 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
646 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
650 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
652 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
656 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
658 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
662 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
665 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
666 may be deleted. (#35845)
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
670 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Various man page enhancements.
673 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
678 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
681 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
682 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
686 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
689 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
690 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
691 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
693 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
694 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
699 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
705 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Another very minor typo fix.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
711 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Very minor typo fix.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
717 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
720 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
721 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
725 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
731 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
733 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
734 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
735 variables properly (#34850).
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
739 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
741 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
745 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
748 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
749 (automatically generated by build process).
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
753 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
755 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
759 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
762 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
763 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
765 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
769 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
772 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
776 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
778 * README: minor typo fix.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
782 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
785 leave it at that. :-)
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
789 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
795 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
801 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
804 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
805 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
806 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
810 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
813 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
817 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
820 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
824 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
827 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
828 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
829 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
830 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
834 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
837 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
838 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
839 Craig Small for spotting this.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
843 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
846 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
847 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
851 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
857 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
860 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
864 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
866 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
867 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
868 working on the last version of debhelper.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
872 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
879 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
881 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
885 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
888 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
892 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
894 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
895 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
896 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
897 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
898 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
902 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
905 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
906 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
907 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
908 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
910 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
911 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
913 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
918 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
920 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
924 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
930 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
933 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
934 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
935 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
936 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
937 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
938 suidregister actually supports it.
939 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
940 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
944 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
951 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
954 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
955 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
956 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
957 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
958 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
959 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
960 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
964 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
966 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
967 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
971 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
974 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
975 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
976 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
977 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
981 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
984 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
986 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
987 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
988 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
989 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
990 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
991 effect, either. (#30118)
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
995 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1001 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1004 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1005 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1009 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1015 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1018 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1019 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1020 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1021 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1025 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1028 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1029 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1033 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1039 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1042 packages, painlessly.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1046 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1052 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1058 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1064 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * The perl conversion is complete.
1068 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1070 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1071 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1072 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1077 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1080 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1081 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1082 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1086 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1089 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1091 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1093 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1094 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1098 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1101 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1102 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1106 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1112 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1115 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1116 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1117 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1118 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1119 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1123 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1126 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1127 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1128 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1129 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1133 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1136 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1140 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1143 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1144 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1145 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1146 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1147 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1148 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1149 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1150 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1154 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1160 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1163 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1164 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1165 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1170 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1173 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1177 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1180 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1184 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1187 sections of shared libraries.
1188 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1189 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1190 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1191 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1192 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1193 things you don't want them to.
1194 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1195 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1199 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1202 shared libraries. (#26414)
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1206 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1208 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1209 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1210 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1211 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1215 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1219 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1221 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1222 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1223 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1224 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1225 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1229 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1232 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1236 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1239 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1240 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1245 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1248 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1252 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1255 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1256 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1257 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1258 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1259 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1261 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1262 remove debian/files properly.
1263 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1264 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1265 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1266 * Removed bogus menu file.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1270 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1273 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1277 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1280 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1281 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1282 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1283 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1284 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1285 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1289 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1292 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1293 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1294 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1295 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1299 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1306 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1309 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1310 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1312 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1313 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1314 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1315 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1316 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1317 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1321 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1324 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1325 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1326 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1327 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1328 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1329 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1330 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1331 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1332 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1333 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1334 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1335 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1336 passed any switches.
1337 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1341 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1344 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1345 at all for a long while.
1346 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1347 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1348 large chunks in the process.
1349 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1350 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1351 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1356 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1359 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1361 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1366 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1369 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1370 that don't always have the same files in them.
1371 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1372 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1373 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1377 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1381 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1382 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1383 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1384 updating 27 man pages.
1385 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1386 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1387 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1388 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1389 programs act on. (#25247)
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1393 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1397 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1398 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1399 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1400 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1401 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1402 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1407 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1414 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1421 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1424 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1428 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1434 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1437 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1438 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1439 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1440 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1441 package by accident.
1442 * Is version 1.0 next?
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1446 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1449 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1450 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1454 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1457 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1458 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1459 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1460 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1461 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1463 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1468 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1471 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1472 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1476 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1479 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1483 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1486 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1487 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1492 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1498 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1501 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1502 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1507 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1513 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1516 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1517 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1518 past week. Thanks, guys!
1520 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1521 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1522 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1523 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1524 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1525 would do in the same situation.
1526 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1527 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1529 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1531 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1532 permissions changed.
1533 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1534 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1535 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1536 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1537 files are treated identically.
1538 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1539 * Minor man page fixes.
1540 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1541 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1542 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1546 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1549 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1550 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1551 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1552 use -X multiple times, too.
1553 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1554 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1558 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1561 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1562 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1566 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1569 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1573 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1576 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1577 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1578 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1579 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1580 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1581 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1582 shape if you're starting a new package.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1586 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1589 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1593 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1596 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1597 because of missing symlinks.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1601 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1607 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1610 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1611 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1612 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1613 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1614 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1616 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1617 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1621 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1623 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1624 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1625 to be changed after the fact :-)
1626 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1630 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1633 no version string after the -V.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1637 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1639 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1640 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1645 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1648 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1652 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1655 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1656 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1657 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1658 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1659 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1660 I always welcome corrections!
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1664 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1670 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1673 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1674 * Documented this new switch.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1678 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1681 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1682 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1683 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1684 no packages use the old behavior.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1688 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1691 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1692 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1696 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1699 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1703 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1709 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1712 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1716 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1719 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1720 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1721 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1725 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1731 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1734 into the source package by accident.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1738 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1741 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1742 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1743 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1744 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1745 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1746 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1751 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1755 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1756 inspired to implement some of it.
1757 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1761 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1764 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1768 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1771 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1772 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1776 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1779 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1780 have done.) (#17598)
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1784 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1790 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1796 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1799 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1803 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1806 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1807 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1811 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1814 argument processor in perl.
1815 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1816 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1817 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1818 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1822 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1825 type directories. (#16933)
1826 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1827 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1828 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1829 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1830 are supported. (#16935)
1831 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1836 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1839 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1843 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1847 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1848 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1849 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1850 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1851 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1852 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1856 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1859 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1860 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1862 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1863 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1864 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1865 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1866 a given package, or -i or -a.
1867 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1868 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1869 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1870 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1871 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1872 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1873 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1874 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1875 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1877 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1878 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1879 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1883 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1886 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1887 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1892 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1895 does not have a section.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1899 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1902 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1903 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1904 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1908 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Fixed typo #16215.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1914 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1917 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1918 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1919 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1920 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1921 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1926 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1929 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1930 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1931 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1936 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1942 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1948 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1951 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1952 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1953 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1954 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1955 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1956 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1960 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1966 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1969 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1973 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1976 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1977 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1978 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1982 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1985 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1989 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1995 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1998 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2002 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2005 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2009 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2015 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2018 postinst, postrm, etc.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2022 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2028 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2031 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2032 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2033 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2034 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2035 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2039 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2042 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2043 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2047 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2050 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2054 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2057 installing package files into.
2058 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2063 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2067 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2071 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2077 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2080 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2084 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2087 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2088 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2089 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2090 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2094 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2096 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2097 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2098 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2099 multiple binary packages.
2100 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2101 should rebuild them with this version.
2102 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2106 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2109 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2113 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2116 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2120 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2123 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2124 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2125 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2126 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2127 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2128 debian/README.debian.
2129 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2130 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2131 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2132 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2133 in a few situations.)
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2137 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2143 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2149 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2152 * Fixed several man pages.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2156 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2159 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2160 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2164 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2167 is ready for general use.
2168 * Added man pages for all commands.
2169 * Multiple binary package support.
2170 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2171 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2172 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2174 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2175 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2176 auto-installed as parameters.
2177 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2179 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2182 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2183 the package build directory it is to act on.
2184 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2185 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2186 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2190 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2192 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2193 ready to replace debstd.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400