1 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
5 prevent that. Closes: #73052
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
9 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Typo, Closes: #72932
12 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
13 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
14 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
15 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
19 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
25 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
32 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
35 (this appears to be logal).
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
39 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
42 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
43 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
44 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
45 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
49 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
55 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
57 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
58 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
59 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
60 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
61 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
65 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
71 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
74 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
78 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
85 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
88 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
89 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
90 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
95 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
102 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
108 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
110 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
111 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
112 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
113 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
114 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
115 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
116 notice until v2 is complete.
117 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
118 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
119 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
120 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
121 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
122 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
124 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
125 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
126 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
127 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
131 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
137 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
144 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
147 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
151 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
158 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
161 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
162 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
163 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
164 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
169 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
172 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
173 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
174 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
179 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
182 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
183 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
187 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
190 just skip files that end in -\d+.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
197 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
201 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
208 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
210 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
211 depend on the build and install targets.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
218 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
222 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
229 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
235 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
241 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
244 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
245 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
246 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
247 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
248 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
249 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
251 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
252 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
253 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
254 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
255 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
256 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
257 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
261 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
267 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
273 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
276 right place. Closes: #55065
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
280 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
287 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Make all examples rules files executable.
290 * Copyright date updates.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
294 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
297 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
302 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
308 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
315 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
321 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
327 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
333 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
336 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
337 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
338 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
339 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
340 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
341 bits until all files have been registered.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
345 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
347 * dh_installmanpages:
348 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
349 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
350 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
351 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
352 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
353 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
354 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
355 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
356 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
357 otherwise change the result at all.
359 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
360 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
361 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
362 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
363 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
368 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
374 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
377 act on files that don't exist.
378 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
379 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
380 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
382 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
383 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
384 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
385 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
389 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
395 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
401 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
404 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
408 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
411 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
413 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
414 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
415 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
419 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
422 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
423 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
424 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
425 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
426 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
427 does not compress. Closes: #41733
428 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
430 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
432 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
436 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
443 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
449 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
455 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
458 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
462 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
468 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
474 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
477 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
478 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
479 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
480 I made some changes, though:
481 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
482 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
483 that is a clear violation of policy.
484 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
485 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
486 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
487 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
488 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
489 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
490 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
491 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
492 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
494 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
504 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
507 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
511 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
514 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
515 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
520 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
526 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
533 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
536 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
537 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
538 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
539 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
540 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
541 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
542 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
546 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
552 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
556 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
557 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
561 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
567 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
570 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
574 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
577 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
578 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
582 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
584 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
589 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
593 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
597 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
599 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
600 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
601 for the dependancies to be generated.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
605 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
608 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
612 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
615 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
616 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
617 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
622 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
625 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
626 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
630 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
636 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
642 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
645 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
655 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
657 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
658 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
659 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
660 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
661 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
662 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
663 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
664 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
665 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
666 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
667 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
668 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
669 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
673 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
675 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
676 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
677 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
679 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
680 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
681 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
682 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
683 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
684 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
686 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
687 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
691 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
694 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
698 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
705 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
707 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
708 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
713 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
716 for building debhelper.
717 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
721 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
728 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Fixed makefile commit target.
731 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
735 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
738 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
739 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
740 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
741 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
742 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
743 it's always available.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
747 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
750 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
751 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
752 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
756 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
759 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
760 modules. (Closes: #42171)
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
764 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
770 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
773 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
777 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
783 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
786 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
787 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
788 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
795 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
800 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
803 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
804 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
806 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
807 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
811 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
817 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
825 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
826 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
830 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
833 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
834 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
836 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
840 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
843 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
844 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
845 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
849 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
852 things if CDPATH is set.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
856 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
862 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
865 seems to make sense for the transition.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
869 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
872 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
880 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
881 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
885 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
888 that version. (Closes: #40589)
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
892 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
894 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
895 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
896 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
897 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
898 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
902 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
908 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
911 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
912 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
913 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
914 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
915 * debhelper.1: documented this.
916 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
917 current compatability level is equal to that number.
918 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
919 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
920 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
925 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
927 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
928 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
929 * README: mention doc/v2
930 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
931 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
935 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
937 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
938 be using this script RSN.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
942 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
945 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
946 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
947 more than 1 init script.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
951 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
954 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
958 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Changed perl version detection.
961 * Changed call to find.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
965 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
968 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
970 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
975 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Really include dh_installpam.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
981 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
984 * Wrote man page for same.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
988 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
991 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
992 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
997 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1004 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1007 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1008 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1009 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1010 x bit was being set!
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1014 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1017 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1018 well. (Closes: 38900)
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1022 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1025 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1026 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1030 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1036 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1043 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1049 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1052 help from Julian Gilbey.
1053 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1054 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1055 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1056 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1057 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1058 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1059 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1064 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1070 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1077 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1083 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1089 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1092 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1096 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1099 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1103 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1106 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1110 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1116 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1119 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1123 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1129 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1135 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1138 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1139 may be deleted. (#35845)
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1143 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Various man page enhancements.
1146 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1151 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1154 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1155 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1159 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1162 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1163 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1164 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1166 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1167 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1172 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1178 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Another very minor typo fix.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1184 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Very minor typo fix.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1190 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1193 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1194 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1198 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1204 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1207 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1208 variables properly (#34850).
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1212 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1218 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1221 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1222 (automatically generated by build process).
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1226 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1228 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1232 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1235 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1236 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1238 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1242 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1245 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1249 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * README: minor typo fix.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1255 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1258 leave it at that. :-)
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1262 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1268 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1274 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1277 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1278 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1279 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1283 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1286 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1290 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1293 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1297 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1300 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1301 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1302 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1303 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1307 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1310 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1311 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1312 Craig Small for spotting this.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1316 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1319 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1320 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1324 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1330 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1333 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1337 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1339 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1340 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1341 working on the last version of debhelper.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1345 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1348 being made. (#23255)
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1352 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1358 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1361 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1365 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1368 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1369 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1370 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1371 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1375 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1378 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1379 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1380 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1381 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1383 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1384 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1386 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1391 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1397 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1403 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1406 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1407 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1408 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1409 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1410 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1411 suidregister actually supports it.
1412 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1413 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1417 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1424 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1427 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1428 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1429 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1430 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1431 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1432 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1433 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1437 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1439 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1440 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1444 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1447 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1448 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1449 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1450 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1454 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1457 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1459 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1460 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1461 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1462 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1463 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1464 effect, either. (#30118)
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1468 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1474 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1477 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1478 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1482 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1488 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1491 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1492 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1493 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1494 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1498 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1501 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1502 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1506 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1512 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1515 packages, painlessly.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1519 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1525 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1531 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1537 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * The perl conversion is complete.
1541 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1543 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1544 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1545 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1550 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1553 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1554 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1555 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1559 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1562 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1564 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1566 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1567 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1571 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1574 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1575 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1579 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1585 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1588 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1589 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1590 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1591 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1592 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1596 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1599 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1600 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1601 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1602 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1606 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1609 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1613 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1616 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1617 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1618 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1619 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1620 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1621 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1622 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1623 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1627 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1633 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1636 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1637 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1638 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1643 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1646 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1650 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1653 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1657 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1660 sections of shared libraries.
1661 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1662 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1663 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1664 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1665 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1666 things you don't want them to.
1667 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1668 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1672 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1675 shared libraries. (#26414)
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1679 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1681 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1682 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1683 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1684 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1688 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1692 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1694 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1695 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1696 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1697 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1698 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1702 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1705 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1709 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1712 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1713 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1718 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1721 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1725 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1728 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1729 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1730 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1731 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1732 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1734 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1735 remove debian/files properly.
1736 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1737 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1738 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1739 * Removed bogus menu file.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1743 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1746 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1750 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1753 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1754 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1755 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1756 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1757 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1758 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1762 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1765 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1766 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1767 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1768 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1772 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1779 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1782 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1783 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1785 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1786 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1787 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1788 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1789 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1790 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1794 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1797 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1798 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1799 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1800 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1801 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1802 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1803 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1804 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1805 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1806 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1807 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1808 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1809 passed any switches.
1810 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1814 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1817 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1818 at all for a long while.
1819 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1820 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1821 large chunks in the process.
1822 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1823 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1824 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1829 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1832 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1834 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1839 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1842 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1843 that don't always have the same files in them.
1844 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1845 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1846 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1850 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1854 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1855 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1856 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1857 updating 27 man pages.
1858 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1859 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1860 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1861 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1862 programs act on. (#25247)
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1866 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1870 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1871 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1872 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1873 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1874 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1875 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1880 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1887 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1894 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1897 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1901 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1907 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1910 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1911 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1912 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1913 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1914 package by accident.
1915 * Is version 1.0 next?
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1919 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1922 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1923 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1927 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1930 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1931 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1932 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1933 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1934 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1936 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1941 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1944 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1945 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1949 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1952 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1956 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1959 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1960 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1965 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1971 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1974 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1975 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1980 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1986 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1989 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1990 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1991 past week. Thanks, guys!
1993 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1994 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1995 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1996 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1997 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1998 would do in the same situation.
1999 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2000 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2002 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2004 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2005 permissions changed.
2006 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2007 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2008 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2009 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2010 files are treated identically.
2011 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2012 * Minor man page fixes.
2013 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2014 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2015 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2019 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2022 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2023 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2024 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2025 use -X multiple times, too.
2026 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2027 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2031 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2034 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2035 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2039 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2042 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2046 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2049 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2050 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2051 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2052 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2053 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2054 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2055 shape if you're starting a new package.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2059 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2062 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2066 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2069 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2070 because of missing symlinks.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2074 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2080 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2083 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2084 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2085 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2086 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2087 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2089 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2090 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2094 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2096 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2097 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2098 to be changed after the fact :-)
2099 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2103 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2106 no version string after the -V.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2110 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2112 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2113 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2118 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2121 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2125 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2128 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2129 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2130 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2131 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2132 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2133 I always welcome corrections!
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2137 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2143 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2146 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2147 * Documented this new switch.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2151 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2154 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2155 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2156 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2157 no packages use the old behavior.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2161 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2164 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2165 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2169 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2172 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2176 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2182 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2185 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2189 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2192 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2193 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2194 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2198 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2204 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2207 into the source package by accident.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2211 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2214 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2215 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2216 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2217 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2218 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2219 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2224 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2228 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2229 inspired to implement some of it.
2230 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2234 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2237 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2241 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2244 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2245 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2249 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2252 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2253 have done.) (#17598)
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2257 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2263 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2269 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2272 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2276 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2279 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2280 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2284 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2287 argument processor in perl.
2288 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2289 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2290 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2291 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2295 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2298 type directories. (#16933)
2299 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2300 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2301 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2302 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2303 are supported. (#16935)
2304 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2309 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2312 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2316 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2320 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2321 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2322 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2323 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2324 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2325 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2329 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2332 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2333 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2335 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2336 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2337 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2338 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2339 a given package, or -i or -a.
2340 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2341 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2342 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2343 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2344 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2345 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2346 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2347 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2348 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2350 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2351 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2352 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2356 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2359 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2360 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2365 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2368 does not have a section.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2372 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2375 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2376 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2377 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2381 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Fixed typo #16215.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2387 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2390 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2391 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2392 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2393 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2394 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2399 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2402 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2403 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2404 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2409 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2415 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2421 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2424 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2425 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2426 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2427 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2428 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2429 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2433 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2439 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2442 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2446 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2449 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2450 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2451 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2455 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2458 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2462 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2468 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2471 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2475 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2478 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2482 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2488 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2491 postinst, postrm, etc.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2495 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2501 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2504 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2505 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2506 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2507 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2508 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2512 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2515 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2516 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2520 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2523 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2527 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2530 installing package files into.
2531 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2536 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2540 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2544 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2550 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2553 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2557 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2560 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2561 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2562 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2563 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2567 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2569 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2570 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2571 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2572 multiple binary packages.
2573 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2574 should rebuild them with this version.
2575 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2579 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2582 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2586 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2589 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2593 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2596 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2597 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2598 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2599 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2600 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2601 debian/README.debian.
2602 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2603 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2604 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2605 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2606 in a few situations.)
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2610 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2616 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2622 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2625 * Fixed several man pages.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2629 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2632 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2633 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2637 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2640 is ready for general use.
2641 * Added man pages for all commands.
2642 * Multiple binary package support.
2643 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2644 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2645 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2647 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2648 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2649 auto-installed as parameters.
2650 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2652 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2655 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2656 the package build directory it is to act on.
2657 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2658 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2659 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2663 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2665 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2666 ready to replace debstd.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400