1 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
7 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
14 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
17 (this appears to be logal).
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
21 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
24 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
25 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
26 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
27 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
31 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
37 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
39 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
40 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
41 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
42 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
43 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
47 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
53 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
56 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
60 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
67 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
70 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
71 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
72 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
77 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
84 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
90 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
92 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
93 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
94 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
95 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
96 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
97 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
98 notice until v2 is complete.
99 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
100 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
101 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
102 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
103 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
104 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
106 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
107 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
108 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
109 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
113 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
119 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
126 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
129 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
133 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
140 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
143 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
144 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
145 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
146 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
151 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
154 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
155 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
156 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
161 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
164 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
165 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
169 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
172 just skip files that end in -\d+.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
176 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
179 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
183 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
190 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
192 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
193 depend on the build and install targets.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
197 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
200 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
204 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
211 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
217 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
223 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
226 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
227 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
228 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
229 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
230 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
231 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
233 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
234 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
235 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
236 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
237 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
238 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
239 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
243 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
249 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
255 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
258 right place. Closes: #55065
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
262 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
269 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Make all examples rules files executable.
272 * Copyright date updates.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
276 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
279 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
284 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
290 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
297 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
303 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
309 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
315 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
318 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
319 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
320 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
321 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
322 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
323 bits until all files have been registered.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
327 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_installmanpages:
330 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
331 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
332 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
333 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
334 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
335 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
336 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
337 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
338 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
339 otherwise change the result at all.
341 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
342 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
343 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
344 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
345 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
350 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
356 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
359 act on files that don't exist.
360 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
361 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
362 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
364 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
365 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
366 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
367 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
371 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
377 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
383 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
386 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
390 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
393 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
395 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
396 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
397 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
401 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
404 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
405 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
406 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
407 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
408 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
409 does not compress. Closes: #41733
410 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
412 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
414 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
418 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
425 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
431 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
437 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
440 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
444 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
450 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
456 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
459 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
460 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
461 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
462 I made some changes, though:
463 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
464 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
465 that is a clear violation of policy.
466 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
467 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
468 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
469 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
470 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
471 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
472 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
473 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
474 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
476 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
480 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
486 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
489 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
493 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
496 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
497 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
502 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
508 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
515 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
518 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
519 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
520 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
521 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
522 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
523 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
524 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
528 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
534 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
538 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
539 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
543 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
549 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
552 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
556 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
559 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
560 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
564 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
566 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
571 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
575 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
579 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
581 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
582 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
583 for the dependancies to be generated.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
587 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
590 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
594 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
597 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
598 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
599 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
604 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
607 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
608 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
612 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
618 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
624 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
627 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
631 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
637 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
639 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
640 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
641 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
642 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
643 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
644 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
645 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
646 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
647 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
648 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
649 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
650 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
651 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
655 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
657 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
658 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
659 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
661 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
662 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
663 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
664 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
665 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
666 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
668 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
669 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
673 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
676 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
680 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
687 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
689 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
690 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
695 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
698 for building debhelper.
699 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
703 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
710 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Fixed makefile commit target.
713 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
717 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
720 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
721 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
722 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
723 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
724 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
725 it's always available.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
729 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
732 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
733 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
734 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
738 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
741 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
742 modules. (Closes: #42171)
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
746 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
752 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
755 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
759 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
765 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
768 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
769 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
770 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
774 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
777 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
782 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
785 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
786 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
788 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
789 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
793 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
805 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
807 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
808 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
812 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
815 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
816 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
818 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
822 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
825 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
826 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
827 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
831 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
834 things if CDPATH is set.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
844 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
847 seems to make sense for the transition.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
851 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
854 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
859 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
862 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
863 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
867 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
870 that version. (Closes: #40589)
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
874 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
876 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
877 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
878 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
879 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
880 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
884 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
890 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
893 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
894 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
895 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
896 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
897 * debhelper.1: documented this.
898 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
899 current compatability level is equal to that number.
900 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
901 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
902 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
907 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
909 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
910 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
911 * README: mention doc/v2
912 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
913 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
917 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
919 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
920 be using this script RSN.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
924 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
927 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
928 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
929 more than 1 init script.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
933 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
936 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
940 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Changed perl version detection.
943 * Changed call to find.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
947 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
950 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
952 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
957 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Really include dh_installpam.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
963 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
966 * Wrote man page for same.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
970 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
973 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
974 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
979 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
986 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
989 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
990 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
991 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
996 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
999 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1000 well. (Closes: 38900)
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1004 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1007 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1008 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1012 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1018 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1025 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1031 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1034 help from Julian Gilbey.
1035 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1036 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1037 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1038 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1039 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1040 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1041 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1052 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1059 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1065 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1071 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1074 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1078 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1081 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1085 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1088 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1092 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1098 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1101 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1105 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1111 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1117 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1120 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1121 may be deleted. (#35845)
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1125 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Various man page enhancements.
1128 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1133 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1136 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1137 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1141 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1144 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1145 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1146 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1148 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1149 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1154 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1160 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Another very minor typo fix.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1166 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Very minor typo fix.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1172 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1175 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1176 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1180 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1186 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1189 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1190 variables properly (#34850).
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1194 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1200 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1203 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1204 (automatically generated by build process).
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1208 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1210 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1214 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1217 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1218 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1220 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1224 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1227 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1231 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * README: minor typo fix.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1237 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1240 leave it at that. :-)
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1244 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1250 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1256 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1259 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1260 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1261 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1265 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1268 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1272 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1275 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1279 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1282 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1283 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1284 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1285 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1289 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1292 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1293 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1294 Craig Small for spotting this.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1298 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1301 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1302 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1306 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1312 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1315 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1319 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1321 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1322 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1323 working on the last version of debhelper.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1327 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1330 being made. (#23255)
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1334 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1340 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1343 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1347 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1350 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1351 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1352 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1353 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1357 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1360 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1361 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1362 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1363 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1365 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1366 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1368 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1373 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1379 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1385 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1388 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1389 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1390 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1391 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1392 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1393 suidregister actually supports it.
1394 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1395 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1399 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1406 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1409 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1410 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1411 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1412 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1413 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1414 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1415 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1419 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1421 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1422 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1426 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1429 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1430 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1431 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1432 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1436 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1439 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1441 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1442 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1443 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1444 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1445 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1446 effect, either. (#30118)
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1450 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1456 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1459 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1460 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1464 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1470 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1473 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1474 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1475 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1476 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1480 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1483 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1484 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1488 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1494 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1497 packages, painlessly.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1501 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1507 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1513 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1519 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * The perl conversion is complete.
1523 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1525 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1526 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1527 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1532 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1535 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1536 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1537 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1541 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1544 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1546 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1548 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1549 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1553 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1556 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1557 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1561 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1567 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1570 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1571 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1572 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1573 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1574 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1578 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1581 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1582 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1583 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1584 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1588 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1591 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1595 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1598 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1599 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1600 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1601 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1602 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1603 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1604 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1605 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1609 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1615 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1618 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1619 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1620 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1625 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1628 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1632 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1635 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1639 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1642 sections of shared libraries.
1643 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1644 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1645 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1646 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1647 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1648 things you don't want them to.
1649 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1650 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1654 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1657 shared libraries. (#26414)
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1663 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1664 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1665 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1666 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1670 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1674 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1676 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1677 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1678 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1679 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1680 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1684 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1687 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1691 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1694 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1695 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1700 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1703 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1707 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1710 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1711 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1712 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1713 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1714 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1716 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1717 remove debian/files properly.
1718 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1719 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1720 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1721 * Removed bogus menu file.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1725 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1728 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1732 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1735 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1736 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1737 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1738 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1739 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1740 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1744 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1747 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1748 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1749 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1750 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1754 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1761 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1764 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1765 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1767 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1768 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1769 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1770 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1771 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1772 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1776 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1779 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1780 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1781 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1782 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1783 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1784 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1785 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1786 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1787 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1788 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1789 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1790 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1791 passed any switches.
1792 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1796 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1799 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1800 at all for a long while.
1801 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1802 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1803 large chunks in the process.
1804 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1805 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1806 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1811 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1814 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1816 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1821 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1824 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1825 that don't always have the same files in them.
1826 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1827 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1828 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1832 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1836 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1837 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1838 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1839 updating 27 man pages.
1840 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1841 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1842 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1843 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1844 programs act on. (#25247)
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1848 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1852 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1853 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1854 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1855 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1856 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1857 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1862 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1869 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1876 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1879 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1883 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1889 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1892 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1893 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1894 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1895 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1896 package by accident.
1897 * Is version 1.0 next?
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1901 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1904 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1905 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1909 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1912 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1913 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1914 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1915 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1916 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1918 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1923 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1926 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1927 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1931 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1934 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1938 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1941 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1942 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1947 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1953 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1956 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1957 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1962 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1968 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1971 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1972 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1973 past week. Thanks, guys!
1975 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1976 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1977 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1978 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1979 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1980 would do in the same situation.
1981 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1982 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1984 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1986 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1987 permissions changed.
1988 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1989 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1990 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1991 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1992 files are treated identically.
1993 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1994 * Minor man page fixes.
1995 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1996 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1997 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2001 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2004 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2005 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2006 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2007 use -X multiple times, too.
2008 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2009 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2013 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2016 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2017 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2021 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2024 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2028 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2031 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2032 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2033 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2034 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2035 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2036 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2037 shape if you're starting a new package.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2041 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2044 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2048 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2051 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2052 because of missing symlinks.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2056 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2062 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2065 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2066 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2067 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2068 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2069 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2071 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2072 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2076 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2078 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2079 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2080 to be changed after the fact :-)
2081 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2085 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2088 no version string after the -V.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2092 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2094 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2095 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2100 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2103 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2107 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2110 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2111 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2112 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2113 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2114 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2115 I always welcome corrections!
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2119 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2125 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2128 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2129 * Documented this new switch.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2133 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2136 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2137 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2138 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2139 no packages use the old behavior.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2143 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2146 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2147 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2151 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2154 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2158 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2164 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2167 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2171 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2174 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2175 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2176 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2180 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2186 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2189 into the source package by accident.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2193 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2196 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2197 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2198 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2199 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2200 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2201 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2206 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2210 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2211 inspired to implement some of it.
2212 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2216 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2219 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2223 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2226 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2227 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2231 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2234 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2235 have done.) (#17598)
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2239 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2245 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2251 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2254 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2258 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2261 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2262 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2266 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2269 argument processor in perl.
2270 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2271 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2272 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2273 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2277 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2280 type directories. (#16933)
2281 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2282 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2283 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2284 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2285 are supported. (#16935)
2286 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2291 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2294 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2298 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2302 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2303 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2304 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2305 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2306 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2307 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2311 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2314 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2315 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2317 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2318 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2319 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2320 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2321 a given package, or -i or -a.
2322 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2323 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2324 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2325 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2326 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2327 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2328 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2329 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2330 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2332 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2333 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2334 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2338 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2341 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2342 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2347 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2350 does not have a section.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2354 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2357 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2358 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2359 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2363 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Fixed typo #16215.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2369 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2372 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2373 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2374 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2375 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2376 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2381 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2384 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2385 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2386 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2391 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2397 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2403 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2406 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2407 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2408 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2409 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2410 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2411 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2415 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2421 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2424 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2428 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2431 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2432 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2433 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2437 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2440 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2444 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2450 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2453 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2457 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2460 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2464 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2470 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2473 postinst, postrm, etc.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2477 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2483 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2486 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2487 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2488 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2489 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2490 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2494 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2497 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2498 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2502 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2505 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2509 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2512 installing package files into.
2513 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2518 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2522 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2526 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2532 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2535 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2539 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2542 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2543 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2544 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2545 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2549 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2551 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2552 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2553 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2554 multiple binary packages.
2555 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2556 should rebuild them with this version.
2557 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2561 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2564 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2568 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2571 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2575 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2578 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2579 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2580 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2581 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2582 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2583 debian/README.debian.
2584 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2585 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2586 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2587 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2588 in a few situations.)
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2592 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2598 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2604 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2607 * Fixed several man pages.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2611 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2614 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2615 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2619 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2622 is ready for general use.
2623 * Added man pages for all commands.
2624 * Multiple binary package support.
2625 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2626 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2627 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2629 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2630 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2631 auto-installed as parameters.
2632 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2634 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2637 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2638 the package build directory it is to act on.
2639 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2640 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2641 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2645 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2647 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2648 ready to replace debstd.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400