1 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
8 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
14 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
16 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
17 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
18 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
19 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
20 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
21 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
22 notice until v2 is complete.
23 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
24 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
25 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
26 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
27 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
28 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
30 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
31 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
32 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
33 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
37 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
43 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
50 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
53 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
57 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
64 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
67 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
68 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
69 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
70 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
75 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
78 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
79 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
80 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
85 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
88 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
89 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
93 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
96 just skip files that end in -\d+.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
100 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
103 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
107 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
114 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
116 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
117 depend on the build and install targets.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
121 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
124 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
128 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
135 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
141 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
147 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
150 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
151 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
152 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
153 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
154 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
155 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
157 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
158 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
159 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
160 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
161 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
162 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
163 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
167 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
173 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
179 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
182 right place. Closes: #55065
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
186 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
193 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Make all examples rules files executable.
196 * Copyright date updates.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
200 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
203 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
208 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
214 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
221 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
227 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
233 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
239 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
242 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
243 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
244 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
245 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
246 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
247 bits until all files have been registered.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
251 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_installmanpages:
254 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
255 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
256 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
257 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
258 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
259 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
260 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
261 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
262 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
263 otherwise change the result at all.
265 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
266 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
267 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
268 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
269 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
274 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
280 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
283 act on files that don't exist.
284 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
285 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
286 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
288 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
289 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
290 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
291 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
295 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
301 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
307 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
310 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
314 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
317 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
319 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
320 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
321 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
325 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
328 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
329 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
330 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
331 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
332 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
333 does not compress. Closes: #41733
334 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
336 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
338 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
342 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
349 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
355 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
361 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
364 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
368 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
374 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
380 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
383 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
384 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
385 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
386 I made some changes, though:
387 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
388 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
389 that is a clear violation of policy.
390 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
391 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
392 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
393 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
394 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
395 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
396 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
397 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
398 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
400 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
404 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
410 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
413 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
417 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
420 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
421 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
426 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
432 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
439 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
442 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
443 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
444 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
445 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
446 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
447 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
448 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
452 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
458 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
462 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
463 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
467 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
473 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
476 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
480 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
483 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
484 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
488 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
490 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
495 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
499 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
503 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
505 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
506 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
507 for the dependancies to be generated.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
511 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
514 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
518 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
521 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
522 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
523 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
528 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
531 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
532 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
536 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
542 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
548 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
551 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
555 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
561 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
563 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
564 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
565 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
566 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
567 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
568 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
569 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
570 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
571 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
572 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
573 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
574 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
575 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
579 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
581 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
582 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
583 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
585 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
586 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
587 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
588 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
589 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
590 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
592 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
593 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
597 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
600 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
604 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
611 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
613 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
614 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
619 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
622 for building debhelper.
623 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
627 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
634 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Fixed makefile commit target.
637 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
641 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
644 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
645 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
646 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
647 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
648 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
649 it's always available.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
653 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
656 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
657 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
658 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
662 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
665 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
666 modules. (Closes: #42171)
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
670 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
676 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
679 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
683 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
689 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
692 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
693 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
694 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
698 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
701 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
706 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
709 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
710 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
712 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
713 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
717 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
723 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
729 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
731 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
732 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
736 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
739 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
740 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
742 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
746 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
749 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
750 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
751 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
755 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
758 things if CDPATH is set.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
762 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
771 seems to make sense for the transition.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
775 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
777 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
778 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
783 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
786 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
787 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
791 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
794 that version. (Closes: #40589)
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
798 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
800 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
801 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
802 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
803 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
804 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
814 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
817 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
818 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
819 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
820 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
821 * debhelper.1: documented this.
822 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
823 current compatability level is equal to that number.
824 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
825 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
826 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
831 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
833 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
834 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
835 * README: mention doc/v2
836 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
837 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
841 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
843 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
844 be using this script RSN.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
848 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
851 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
852 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
853 more than 1 init script.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
857 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
860 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
864 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Changed perl version detection.
867 * Changed call to find.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
871 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
874 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
876 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
881 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Really include dh_installpam.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
887 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
890 * Wrote man page for same.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
894 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
897 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
898 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
903 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
910 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
913 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
914 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
915 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
920 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
923 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
924 well. (Closes: 38900)
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
928 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
931 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
932 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
936 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
942 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
949 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
955 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
957 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
958 help from Julian Gilbey.
959 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
960 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
961 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
962 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
963 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
964 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
965 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
970 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
976 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
978 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
983 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
989 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
995 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
998 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1002 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1005 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1009 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1012 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1016 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1022 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1025 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1029 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1035 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1041 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1044 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1045 may be deleted. (#35845)
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1049 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Various man page enhancements.
1052 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1057 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1060 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1061 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1065 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1068 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1069 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1070 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1072 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1073 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1078 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1084 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Another very minor typo fix.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1090 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Very minor typo fix.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1096 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1099 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1100 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1104 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1110 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1113 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1114 variables properly (#34850).
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1118 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1124 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1127 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1128 (automatically generated by build process).
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1132 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1134 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1138 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1141 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1142 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1144 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1148 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1151 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1155 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * README: minor typo fix.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1161 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1164 leave it at that. :-)
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1168 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1174 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1180 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1183 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1184 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1185 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1189 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1192 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1196 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1199 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1203 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1206 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1207 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1208 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1209 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1213 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1216 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1217 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1218 Craig Small for spotting this.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1222 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1225 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1226 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1230 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1236 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1239 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1243 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1245 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1246 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1247 working on the last version of debhelper.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1251 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1254 being made. (#23255)
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1258 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1264 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1267 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1271 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1274 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1275 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1276 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1277 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1281 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1284 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1285 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1286 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1287 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1289 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1290 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1292 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1297 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1303 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1309 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1312 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1313 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1314 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1315 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1316 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1317 suidregister actually supports it.
1318 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1319 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1323 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1330 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1333 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1334 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1335 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1336 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1337 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1338 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1339 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1343 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1345 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1346 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1350 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1353 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1354 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1355 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1356 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1360 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1363 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1365 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1366 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1367 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1368 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1369 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1370 effect, either. (#30118)
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1374 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1380 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1383 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1384 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1388 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1394 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1397 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1398 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1399 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1400 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1404 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1407 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1408 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1412 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1418 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1421 packages, painlessly.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1425 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1431 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1437 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1443 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * The perl conversion is complete.
1447 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1449 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1450 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1451 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1456 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1459 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1460 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1461 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1465 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1468 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1470 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1472 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1473 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1477 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1480 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1481 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1485 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1491 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1494 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1495 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1496 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1497 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1498 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1502 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1505 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1506 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1507 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1508 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1512 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1515 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1519 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1522 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1523 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1524 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1525 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1526 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1527 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1528 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1529 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1533 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1539 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1542 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1543 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1544 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1549 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1552 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1556 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1559 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1563 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1566 sections of shared libraries.
1567 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1568 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1569 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1570 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1571 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1572 things you don't want them to.
1573 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1574 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1578 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1581 shared libraries. (#26414)
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1585 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1587 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1588 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1589 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1590 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1594 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1598 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1600 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1601 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1602 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1603 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1604 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1608 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1611 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1615 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1618 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1619 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1624 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1627 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1631 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1634 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1635 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1636 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1637 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1638 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1640 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1641 remove debian/files properly.
1642 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1643 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1644 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1645 * Removed bogus menu file.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1649 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1652 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1656 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1659 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1660 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1661 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1662 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1663 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1664 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1668 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1671 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1672 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1673 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1674 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1678 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1685 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1688 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1689 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1691 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1692 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1693 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1694 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1695 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1696 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1700 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1703 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1704 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1705 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1706 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1707 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1708 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1709 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1710 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1711 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1712 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1713 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1714 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1715 passed any switches.
1716 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1720 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1723 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1724 at all for a long while.
1725 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1726 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1727 large chunks in the process.
1728 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1729 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1730 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1735 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1738 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1740 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1745 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1748 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1749 that don't always have the same files in them.
1750 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1751 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1752 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1756 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1760 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1761 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1762 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1763 updating 27 man pages.
1764 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1765 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1766 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1767 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1768 programs act on. (#25247)
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1772 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1776 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1777 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1778 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1779 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1780 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1781 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1786 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1793 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1800 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1803 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1807 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1813 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1816 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1817 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1818 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1819 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1820 package by accident.
1821 * Is version 1.0 next?
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1825 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1828 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1829 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1833 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1836 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1837 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1838 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1839 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1840 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1842 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1847 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1850 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1851 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1855 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1858 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1862 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1865 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1866 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1871 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1877 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1880 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1881 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1886 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1892 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1895 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1896 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1897 past week. Thanks, guys!
1899 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1900 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1901 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1902 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1903 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1904 would do in the same situation.
1905 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1906 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1908 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1910 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1911 permissions changed.
1912 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1913 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1914 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1915 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1916 files are treated identically.
1917 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1918 * Minor man page fixes.
1919 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1920 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1921 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1925 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1928 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1929 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1930 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1931 use -X multiple times, too.
1932 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1933 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1937 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1940 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1941 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1945 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1948 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1952 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1955 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1956 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1957 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1958 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1959 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1960 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1961 shape if you're starting a new package.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1965 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1968 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1972 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1975 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1976 because of missing symlinks.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1980 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1986 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1989 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1990 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1991 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1992 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1993 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1995 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1996 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2000 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2002 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2003 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2004 to be changed after the fact :-)
2005 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2009 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2012 no version string after the -V.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2016 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2018 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2019 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2024 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2027 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2031 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2034 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2035 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2036 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2037 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2038 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2039 I always welcome corrections!
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2043 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2049 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2052 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2053 * Documented this new switch.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2057 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2060 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2061 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2062 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2063 no packages use the old behavior.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2067 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2070 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2071 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2075 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2078 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2082 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2088 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2091 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2095 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2098 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2099 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2100 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2104 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2110 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2113 into the source package by accident.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2117 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2120 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2121 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2122 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2123 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2124 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2125 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2130 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2134 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2135 inspired to implement some of it.
2136 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2140 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2143 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2147 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2150 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2151 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2155 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2158 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2159 have done.) (#17598)
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2163 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2169 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2175 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2178 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2182 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2185 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2186 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2190 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2193 argument processor in perl.
2194 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2195 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2196 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2197 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2201 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2204 type directories. (#16933)
2205 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2206 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2207 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2208 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2209 are supported. (#16935)
2210 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2215 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2218 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2222 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2226 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2227 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2228 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2229 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2230 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2231 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2235 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2238 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2239 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2241 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2242 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2243 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2244 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2245 a given package, or -i or -a.
2246 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2247 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2248 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2249 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2250 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2251 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2252 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2253 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2254 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2256 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2257 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2258 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2262 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2265 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2266 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2271 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2274 does not have a section.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2278 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2281 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2282 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2283 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2287 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Fixed typo #16215.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2293 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2296 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2297 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2298 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2299 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2300 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2305 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2308 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2309 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2310 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2315 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2321 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2327 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2330 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2331 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2332 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2333 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2334 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2335 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2339 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2345 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2348 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2352 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2355 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2356 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2357 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2361 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2364 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2368 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2374 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2377 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2381 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2384 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2388 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2394 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2397 postinst, postrm, etc.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2401 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2407 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2410 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2411 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2412 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2413 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2414 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2418 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2421 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2422 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2426 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2429 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2433 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2436 installing package files into.
2437 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2442 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2446 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2450 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2456 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2459 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2463 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2466 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2467 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2468 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2469 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2473 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2475 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2476 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2477 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2478 multiple binary packages.
2479 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2480 should rebuild them with this version.
2481 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2485 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2488 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2492 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2495 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2499 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2502 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2503 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2504 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2505 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2506 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2507 debian/README.debian.
2508 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2509 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2510 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2511 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2512 in a few situations.)
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2516 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2522 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2528 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2531 * Fixed several man pages.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2535 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2538 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2539 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2543 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2546 is ready for general use.
2547 * Added man pages for all commands.
2548 * Multiple binary package support.
2549 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2550 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2551 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2553 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2554 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2555 auto-installed as parameters.
2556 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2558 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2561 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2562 the package build directory it is to act on.
2563 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2564 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2565 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2569 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2571 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2572 ready to replace debstd.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400