1 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
7 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
10 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
14 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
21 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
24 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
25 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
26 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
31 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
38 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
44 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
46 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
47 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
48 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
49 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
50 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
51 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
52 notice until v2 is complete.
53 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
54 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
55 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
56 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
57 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
58 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
60 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
61 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
62 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
63 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
67 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
73 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
83 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
87 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
94 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
97 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
98 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
99 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
100 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
105 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
108 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
109 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
110 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
115 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
118 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
119 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
123 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
126 just skip files that end in -\d+.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
130 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
133 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
137 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
144 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
146 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
147 depend on the build and install targets.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
151 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
154 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
158 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
165 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
171 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
177 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
180 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
181 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
182 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
183 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
184 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
185 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
187 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
188 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
189 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
190 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
191 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
192 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
193 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
197 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
203 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
209 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
212 right place. Closes: #55065
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
216 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
223 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Make all examples rules files executable.
226 * Copyright date updates.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
230 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
233 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
238 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
244 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
251 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
257 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
263 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
269 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
272 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
273 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
274 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
275 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
276 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
277 bits until all files have been registered.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
281 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_installmanpages:
284 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
285 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
286 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
287 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
288 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
289 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
290 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
291 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
292 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
293 otherwise change the result at all.
295 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
296 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
297 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
298 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
299 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
304 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
310 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
313 act on files that don't exist.
314 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
315 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
316 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
318 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
319 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
320 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
321 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
325 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
331 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
337 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
340 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
344 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
347 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
349 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
350 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
351 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
355 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
358 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
359 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
360 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
361 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
362 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
363 does not compress. Closes: #41733
364 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
366 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
368 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
372 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
379 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
385 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
391 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
394 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
398 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
404 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
410 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
413 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
414 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
415 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
416 I made some changes, though:
417 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
418 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
419 that is a clear violation of policy.
420 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
421 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
422 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
423 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
424 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
425 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
426 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
427 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
428 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
430 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
434 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
440 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
443 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
447 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
450 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
451 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
456 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
462 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
469 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
472 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
473 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
474 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
475 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
476 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
477 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
478 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
482 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
488 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
492 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
493 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
497 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
503 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
506 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
510 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
513 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
514 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
518 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
520 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
525 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
529 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
533 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
535 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
536 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
537 for the dependancies to be generated.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
541 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
544 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
548 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
551 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
552 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
553 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
558 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
561 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
562 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
566 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
572 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
578 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
581 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
585 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
591 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
593 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
594 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
595 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
596 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
597 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
598 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
599 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
600 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
601 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
602 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
603 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
604 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
605 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
609 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
611 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
612 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
613 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
615 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
616 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
617 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
618 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
619 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
620 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
622 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
623 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
627 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
630 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
634 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
641 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
643 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
644 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
652 for building debhelper.
653 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
657 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
664 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Fixed makefile commit target.
667 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
671 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
674 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
675 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
676 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
677 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
678 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
679 it's always available.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
683 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
686 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
687 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
688 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
692 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
695 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
696 modules. (Closes: #42171)
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
700 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
706 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
709 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
713 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
719 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
722 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
723 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
724 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
728 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
731 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
736 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
739 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
740 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
742 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
743 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
747 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
753 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
759 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
761 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
762 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
766 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
769 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
770 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
772 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
776 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
779 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
780 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
781 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
785 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
788 things if CDPATH is set.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
798 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
801 seems to make sense for the transition.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
805 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
808 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
813 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
816 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
817 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
821 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
824 that version. (Closes: #40589)
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
828 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
830 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
831 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
832 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
833 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
834 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
844 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
847 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
848 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
849 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
850 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
851 * debhelper.1: documented this.
852 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
853 current compatability level is equal to that number.
854 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
855 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
856 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
861 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
863 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
864 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
865 * README: mention doc/v2
866 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
867 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
871 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
873 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
874 be using this script RSN.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
878 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
881 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
882 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
883 more than 1 init script.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
887 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
890 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
894 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Changed perl version detection.
897 * Changed call to find.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
901 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
904 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
906 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
911 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Really include dh_installpam.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
917 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
920 * Wrote man page for same.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
924 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
927 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
928 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
933 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
940 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
943 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
944 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
945 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
950 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
953 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
954 well. (Closes: 38900)
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
958 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
961 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
962 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
966 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
972 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
979 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
985 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
987 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
988 help from Julian Gilbey.
989 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
990 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
991 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
992 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
993 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
994 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
995 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1000 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1006 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1013 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1019 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1025 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1028 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1032 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1035 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1039 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1042 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1052 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1055 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1059 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1065 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1071 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1074 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1075 may be deleted. (#35845)
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1079 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Various man page enhancements.
1082 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1087 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1090 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1091 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1095 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1098 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1099 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1100 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1102 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1103 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1108 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1114 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Another very minor typo fix.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1120 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Very minor typo fix.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1126 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1129 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1130 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1134 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1140 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1143 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1144 variables properly (#34850).
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1148 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1154 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1157 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1158 (automatically generated by build process).
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1162 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1164 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1168 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1171 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1172 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1174 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1178 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1181 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1185 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * README: minor typo fix.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1191 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1194 leave it at that. :-)
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1198 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1204 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1210 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1213 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1214 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1215 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1219 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1222 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1226 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1229 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1233 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1236 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1237 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1238 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1239 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1243 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1246 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1247 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1248 Craig Small for spotting this.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1252 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1255 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1256 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1260 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1266 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1269 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1273 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1275 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1276 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1277 working on the last version of debhelper.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1281 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1284 being made. (#23255)
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1288 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1294 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1297 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1301 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1304 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1305 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1306 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1307 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1311 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1314 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1315 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1316 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1317 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1319 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1320 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1322 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1327 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1333 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1339 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1342 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1343 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1344 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1345 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1346 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1347 suidregister actually supports it.
1348 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1349 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1353 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1360 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1363 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1364 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1365 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1366 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1367 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1368 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1369 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1373 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1375 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1376 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1380 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1383 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1384 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1385 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1386 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1390 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1393 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1395 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1396 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1397 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1398 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1399 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1400 effect, either. (#30118)
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1404 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1410 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1413 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1414 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1418 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1424 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1427 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1428 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1429 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1430 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1434 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1437 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1438 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1442 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1448 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1451 packages, painlessly.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1455 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1461 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1467 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1473 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * The perl conversion is complete.
1477 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1479 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1480 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1481 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1486 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1489 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1490 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1491 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1495 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1498 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1500 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1502 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1503 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1507 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1510 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1511 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1515 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1521 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1524 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1525 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1526 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1527 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1528 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1532 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1535 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1536 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1537 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1538 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1542 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1545 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1549 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1552 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1553 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1554 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1555 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1556 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1557 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1558 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1559 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1563 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1569 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1572 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1573 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1574 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1579 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1582 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1586 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1589 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1593 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1596 sections of shared libraries.
1597 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1598 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1599 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1600 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1601 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1602 things you don't want them to.
1603 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1604 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1608 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1611 shared libraries. (#26414)
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1615 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1617 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1618 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1619 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1620 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1624 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1628 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1630 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1631 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1632 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1633 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1634 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1638 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1641 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1645 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1648 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1649 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1654 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1657 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1664 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1665 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1666 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1667 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1668 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1670 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1671 remove debian/files properly.
1672 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1673 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1674 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1675 * Removed bogus menu file.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1679 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1682 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1686 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1689 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1690 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1691 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1692 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1693 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1694 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1698 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1701 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1702 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1703 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1704 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1708 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1715 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1718 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1719 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1721 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1722 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1723 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1724 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1725 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1726 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1730 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1733 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1734 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1735 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1736 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1737 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1738 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1739 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1740 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1741 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1742 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1743 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1744 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1745 passed any switches.
1746 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1750 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1753 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1754 at all for a long while.
1755 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1756 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1757 large chunks in the process.
1758 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1759 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1760 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1765 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1768 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1770 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1775 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1778 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1779 that don't always have the same files in them.
1780 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1781 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1782 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1786 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1790 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1791 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1792 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1793 updating 27 man pages.
1794 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1795 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1796 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1797 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1798 programs act on. (#25247)
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1802 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1806 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1807 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1808 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1809 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1810 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1811 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1816 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1823 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1830 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1833 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1837 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1843 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1846 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1847 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1848 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1849 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1850 package by accident.
1851 * Is version 1.0 next?
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1855 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1858 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1859 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1863 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1866 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1867 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1868 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1869 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1870 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1872 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1877 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1880 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1881 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1885 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1888 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1892 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1895 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1896 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1901 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1907 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1910 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1911 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1916 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1922 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1925 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1926 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1927 past week. Thanks, guys!
1929 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1930 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1931 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1932 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1933 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1934 would do in the same situation.
1935 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1936 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1938 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1940 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1941 permissions changed.
1942 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1943 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1944 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1945 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1946 files are treated identically.
1947 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1948 * Minor man page fixes.
1949 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1950 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1951 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1955 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1958 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1959 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1960 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1961 use -X multiple times, too.
1962 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1963 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1967 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1970 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1971 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1975 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1978 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1982 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1985 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1986 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1987 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1988 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1989 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1990 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1991 shape if you're starting a new package.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1995 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1998 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2002 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2005 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2006 because of missing symlinks.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2010 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2016 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2019 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2020 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2021 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2022 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2023 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2025 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2026 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2030 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2032 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2033 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2034 to be changed after the fact :-)
2035 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2039 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2042 no version string after the -V.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2046 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2048 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2049 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2054 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2057 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2061 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2064 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2065 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2066 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2067 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2068 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2069 I always welcome corrections!
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2073 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2079 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2082 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2083 * Documented this new switch.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2087 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2090 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2091 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2092 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2093 no packages use the old behavior.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2097 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2100 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2101 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2105 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2108 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2112 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2118 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2121 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2125 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2128 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2129 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2130 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2134 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2140 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2143 into the source package by accident.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2147 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2150 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2151 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2152 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2153 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2154 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2155 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2160 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2164 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2165 inspired to implement some of it.
2166 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2170 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2173 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2177 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2180 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2181 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2185 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2188 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2189 have done.) (#17598)
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2193 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2199 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2205 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2208 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2212 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2215 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2216 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2220 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2223 argument processor in perl.
2224 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2225 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2226 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2227 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2231 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2234 type directories. (#16933)
2235 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2236 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2237 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2238 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2239 are supported. (#16935)
2240 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2245 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2248 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2252 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2256 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2257 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2258 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2259 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2260 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2261 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2265 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2268 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2269 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2271 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2272 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2273 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2274 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2275 a given package, or -i or -a.
2276 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2277 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2278 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2279 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2280 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2281 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2282 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2283 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2284 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2286 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2287 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2288 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2292 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2295 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2296 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2301 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2304 does not have a section.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2308 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2311 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2312 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2313 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2317 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Fixed typo #16215.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2323 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2326 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2327 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2328 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2329 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2330 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2335 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2338 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2339 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2340 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2345 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2351 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2357 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2360 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2361 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2362 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2363 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2364 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2365 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2369 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2375 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2378 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2382 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2385 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2386 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2387 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2391 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2394 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2398 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2404 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2407 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2411 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2414 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2418 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2424 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2427 postinst, postrm, etc.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2431 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2437 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2440 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2441 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2442 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2443 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2444 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2448 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2451 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2452 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2456 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2459 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2463 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2466 installing package files into.
2467 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2472 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2476 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2480 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2486 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2489 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2493 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2496 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2497 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2498 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2499 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2503 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2505 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2506 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2507 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2508 multiple binary packages.
2509 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2510 should rebuild them with this version.
2511 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2515 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2518 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2522 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2525 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2529 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2532 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2533 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2534 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2535 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2536 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2537 debian/README.debian.
2538 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2539 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2540 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2541 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2542 in a few situations.)
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2546 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2552 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2558 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2561 * Fixed several man pages.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2565 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2568 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2569 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2573 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2576 is ready for general use.
2577 * Added man pages for all commands.
2578 * Multiple binary package support.
2579 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2580 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2581 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2583 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2584 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2585 auto-installed as parameters.
2586 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2588 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2591 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2592 the package build directory it is to act on.
2593 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2594 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2595 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2599 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2601 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2602 ready to replace debstd.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400