1 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4 they were previously ignored.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
8 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
10 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
11 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
15 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
17 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
18 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
19 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
23 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
25 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
29 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
31 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
32 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
36 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
38 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
39 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
40 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
41 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
42 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
43 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
44 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
45 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
46 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
47 it is an obsolete program.
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
51 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
53 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
57 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
61 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
63 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
67 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
69 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
71 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
73 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
77 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
83 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
85 * typo: Closes, #78567
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
89 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
95 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
101 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
103 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
104 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
105 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
106 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
107 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
108 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
112 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
115 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
120 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
123 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
124 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
125 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
126 backwards-compatability.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
130 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
132 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
133 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
134 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
135 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
136 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
137 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
138 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
140 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
141 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
142 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
144 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
146 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
147 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
148 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
149 should now be raised to severity important..
150 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
151 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
155 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
158 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
163 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Typo, Closes: #77441
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
169 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Completed the fix from the last version.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
175 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
181 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
183 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
188 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
191 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
192 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
193 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
194 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
198 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
204 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
207 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
208 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
209 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
210 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
211 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
212 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
217 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
220 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
224 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
230 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
233 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
238 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
241 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
242 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
243 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
244 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
248 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
252 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
255 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
258 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
259 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
262 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
264 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
265 the TODO entry about it.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
269 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
276 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
279 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
280 prevent that. Closes: #73052
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
284 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Typo, Closes: #72932
287 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
288 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
289 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
290 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
294 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
300 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
307 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
310 (this appears to be logal).
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
314 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
317 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
318 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
319 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
320 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
324 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
330 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
332 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
333 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
334 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
335 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
336 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
340 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
346 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
349 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
353 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
360 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
363 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
364 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
365 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
370 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
377 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
383 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
385 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
386 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
387 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
388 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
389 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
390 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
391 notice until v2 is complete.
392 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
393 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
394 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
395 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
396 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
397 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
399 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
400 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
401 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
402 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
406 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
412 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
419 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
422 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
426 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
433 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
436 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
437 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
438 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
439 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
444 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
447 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
448 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
449 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
454 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
457 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
458 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
462 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
465 just skip files that end in -\d+.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
469 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
472 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
476 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
483 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
485 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
486 depend on the build and install targets.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
490 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
493 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
497 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
504 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
510 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
516 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
518 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
519 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
520 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
521 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
522 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
523 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
524 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
526 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
527 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
528 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
529 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
530 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
531 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
532 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
536 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
542 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
548 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
551 right place. Closes: #55065
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
555 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
562 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Make all examples rules files executable.
565 * Copyright date updates.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
569 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
572 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
577 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
583 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
590 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
596 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
602 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
608 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
611 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
612 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
613 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
614 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
615 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
616 bits until all files have been registered.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
620 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installmanpages:
623 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
624 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
625 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
626 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
627 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
628 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
629 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
630 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
631 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
632 otherwise change the result at all.
634 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
635 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
636 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
637 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
638 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
643 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
649 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
652 act on files that don't exist.
653 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
654 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
655 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
657 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
658 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
659 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
660 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
664 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
670 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
676 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
679 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
683 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
686 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
688 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
689 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
690 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
694 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
697 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
698 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
699 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
700 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
701 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
702 does not compress. Closes: #41733
703 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
705 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
707 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
711 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
718 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
724 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
730 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
733 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
737 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
743 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
749 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
752 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
753 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
754 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
755 I made some changes, though:
756 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
757 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
758 that is a clear violation of policy.
759 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
760 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
761 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
762 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
763 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
764 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
765 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
766 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
767 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
769 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
773 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
779 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
782 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
789 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
790 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
795 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
811 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
812 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
813 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
814 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
815 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
816 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
817 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
821 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
827 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
831 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
832 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
836 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
842 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
845 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
849 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
852 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
853 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
857 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
859 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
864 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
868 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
872 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
874 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
875 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
876 for the dependancies to be generated.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
880 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
883 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
887 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
890 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
891 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
892 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
897 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
900 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
901 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
905 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
911 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
917 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
920 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
924 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
930 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
932 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
933 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
934 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
935 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
936 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
937 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
938 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
939 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
940 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
941 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
942 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
943 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
944 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
948 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
950 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
951 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
952 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
954 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
955 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
956 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
957 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
958 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
959 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
961 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
962 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
966 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
969 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
973 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
980 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
982 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
983 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
988 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
991 for building debhelper.
992 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1003 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1006 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1010 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1013 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1014 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1015 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1016 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1017 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1018 it's always available.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1022 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1025 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1026 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1027 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1034 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1035 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1039 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1045 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1048 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1052 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1058 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1061 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1062 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1063 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1070 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1075 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1078 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1079 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1081 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1082 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1086 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1092 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1098 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1101 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1105 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1108 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1109 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1111 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1115 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1118 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1119 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1120 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1124 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1127 things if CDPATH is set.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1131 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1137 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1140 seems to make sense for the transition.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1144 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1147 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1152 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1155 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1156 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1160 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1163 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1167 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1170 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1171 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1172 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1173 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1177 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1183 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1186 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1187 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1188 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1189 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1190 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1191 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1192 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1193 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1194 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1195 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1200 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1203 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1204 * README: mention doc/v2
1205 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1206 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1210 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1212 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1213 be using this script RSN.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1217 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1220 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1221 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1222 more than 1 init script.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1226 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1229 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1233 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Changed perl version detection.
1236 * Changed call to find.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1240 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1243 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1245 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1250 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Really include dh_installpam.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1256 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1259 * Wrote man page for same.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1263 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1266 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1267 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1272 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1279 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1282 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1283 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1284 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1285 x bit was being set!
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1289 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1292 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1293 well. (Closes: 38900)
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1297 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1300 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1301 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1305 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1311 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1318 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1324 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1327 help from Julian Gilbey.
1328 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1329 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1330 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1331 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1332 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1333 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1334 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1339 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1345 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1352 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1358 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1364 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1367 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1371 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1374 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1378 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1381 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1385 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1391 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1394 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1398 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1404 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1410 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1413 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1414 may be deleted. (#35845)
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1418 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Various man page enhancements.
1421 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1426 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1429 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1430 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1434 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1437 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1438 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1439 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1441 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1442 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1447 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1453 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Another very minor typo fix.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1459 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Very minor typo fix.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1465 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1468 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1469 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1473 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1479 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1482 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1483 variables properly (#34850).
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1487 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1493 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1496 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1497 (automatically generated by build process).
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1501 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1503 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1507 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1510 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1511 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1513 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1517 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1520 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1524 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * README: minor typo fix.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1530 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1533 leave it at that. :-)
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1537 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1543 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1549 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1552 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1553 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1554 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1558 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1561 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1565 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1568 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1572 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1575 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1576 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1577 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1578 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1582 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1585 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1586 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1587 Craig Small for spotting this.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1591 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1594 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1595 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1599 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1605 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1608 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1612 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1614 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1615 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1616 working on the last version of debhelper.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1620 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1623 being made. (#23255)
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1627 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1633 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1636 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1640 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1643 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1644 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1645 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1646 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1650 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1653 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1654 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1655 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1656 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1658 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1659 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1661 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1666 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1672 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1678 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1681 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1682 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1683 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1684 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1685 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1686 suidregister actually supports it.
1687 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1688 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1692 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1699 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1702 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1703 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1704 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1705 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1706 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1707 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1708 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1712 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1714 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1715 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1719 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1722 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1723 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1724 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1725 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1729 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1732 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1734 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1735 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1736 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1737 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1738 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1739 effect, either. (#30118)
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1743 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1749 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1752 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1753 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1757 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1763 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1766 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1767 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1768 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1769 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1773 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1776 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1777 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1781 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1787 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1790 packages, painlessly.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1794 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1800 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1806 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1812 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * The perl conversion is complete.
1816 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1818 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1819 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1820 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1825 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1828 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1829 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1830 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1834 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1837 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1839 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1841 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1842 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1846 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1849 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1850 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1854 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1860 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1863 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1864 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1865 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1866 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1867 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1871 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1874 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1875 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1876 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1877 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1881 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1884 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1888 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1891 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1892 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1893 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1894 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1895 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1896 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1897 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1898 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1902 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1908 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1911 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1912 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1913 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1918 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1921 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1925 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1928 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1932 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1935 sections of shared libraries.
1936 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1937 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1938 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1939 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1940 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1941 things you don't want them to.
1942 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1943 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1947 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1950 shared libraries. (#26414)
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1954 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1956 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1957 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1958 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1959 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1963 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1967 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1969 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1970 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1971 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1972 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1973 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1977 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1980 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1984 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1987 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1988 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1993 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1996 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2000 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2003 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2004 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2005 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2006 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2007 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2009 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2010 remove debian/files properly.
2011 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2012 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2013 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2014 * Removed bogus menu file.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2018 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2021 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2025 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2028 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2029 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2030 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2031 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2032 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2033 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2037 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2040 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2041 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2042 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2043 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2047 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2054 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2057 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2058 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2060 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2061 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2062 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2063 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2064 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2065 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2069 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2072 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2073 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2074 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2075 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2076 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2077 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2078 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2079 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2080 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2081 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2082 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2083 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2084 passed any switches.
2085 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2089 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2092 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2093 at all for a long while.
2094 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2095 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2096 large chunks in the process.
2097 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2098 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2099 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2104 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2107 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2109 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2114 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2117 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2118 that don't always have the same files in them.
2119 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2120 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2121 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2125 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2129 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2130 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2131 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2132 updating 27 man pages.
2133 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2134 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2135 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2136 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2137 programs act on. (#25247)
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2141 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2145 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2146 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2147 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2148 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2149 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2150 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2155 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2162 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2169 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2172 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2176 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2182 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2185 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2186 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2187 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2188 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2189 package by accident.
2190 * Is version 1.0 next?
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2194 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2197 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2198 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2202 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2205 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2206 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2207 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2208 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2209 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2211 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2216 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2219 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2220 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2224 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2227 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2231 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2234 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2235 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2240 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2246 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2249 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2250 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2255 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2261 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2264 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2265 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2266 past week. Thanks, guys!
2268 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2269 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2270 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2271 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2272 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2273 would do in the same situation.
2274 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2275 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2277 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2279 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2280 permissions changed.
2281 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2282 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2283 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2284 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2285 files are treated identically.
2286 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2287 * Minor man page fixes.
2288 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2289 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2290 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2294 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2297 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2298 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2299 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2300 use -X multiple times, too.
2301 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2302 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2306 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2309 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2310 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2314 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2317 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2321 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2324 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2325 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2326 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2327 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2328 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2329 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2330 shape if you're starting a new package.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2334 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2337 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2341 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2344 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2345 because of missing symlinks.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2349 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2355 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2358 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2359 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2360 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2361 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2362 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2364 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2365 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2369 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2371 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2372 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2373 to be changed after the fact :-)
2374 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2378 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2381 no version string after the -V.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2385 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2387 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2388 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2393 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2396 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2400 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2403 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2404 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2405 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2406 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2407 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2408 I always welcome corrections!
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2412 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2418 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2421 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2422 * Documented this new switch.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2426 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2429 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2430 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2431 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2432 no packages use the old behavior.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2436 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2439 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2440 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2444 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2447 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2451 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2457 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2460 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2464 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2467 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2468 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2469 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2473 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2479 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2482 into the source package by accident.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2486 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2489 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2490 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2491 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2492 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2493 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2494 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2499 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2503 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2504 inspired to implement some of it.
2505 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2509 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2512 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2516 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2519 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2520 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2524 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2527 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2528 have done.) (#17598)
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2532 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2538 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2544 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2547 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2551 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2554 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2555 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2559 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2562 argument processor in perl.
2563 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2564 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2565 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2566 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2570 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2573 type directories. (#16933)
2574 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2575 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2576 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2577 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2578 are supported. (#16935)
2579 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2584 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2587 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2591 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2595 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2596 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2597 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2598 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2599 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2600 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2604 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2607 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2608 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2610 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2611 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2612 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2613 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2614 a given package, or -i or -a.
2615 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2616 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2617 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2618 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2619 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2620 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2621 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2622 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2623 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2625 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2626 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2627 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2631 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2634 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2635 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2640 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2643 does not have a section.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2647 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2650 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2651 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2652 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2656 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Fixed typo #16215.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2662 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2665 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2666 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2667 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2668 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2669 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2674 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2677 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2678 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2679 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2684 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2690 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2696 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2699 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2700 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2701 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2702 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2703 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2704 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2708 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2714 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2717 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2721 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2724 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2725 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2726 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2730 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2733 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2737 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2743 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2746 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2750 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2753 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2757 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2763 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2766 postinst, postrm, etc.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2770 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2776 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2779 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2780 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2781 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2782 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2783 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2787 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2790 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2791 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2795 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2798 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2802 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2805 installing package files into.
2806 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2811 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2815 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2819 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2825 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2828 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2832 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2835 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2836 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2837 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2838 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2842 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2844 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2845 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2846 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2847 multiple binary packages.
2848 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2849 should rebuild them with this version.
2850 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2854 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2857 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2861 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2864 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2868 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2871 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2872 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2873 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2874 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2875 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2876 debian/README.debian.
2877 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2878 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2879 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2880 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2881 in a few situations.)
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2885 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2891 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2897 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2900 * Fixed several man pages.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2904 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2907 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2908 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2912 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2915 is ready for general use.
2916 * Added man pages for all commands.
2917 * Multiple binary package support.
2918 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2919 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2920 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2922 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2923 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2924 auto-installed as parameters.
2925 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2927 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2930 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2931 the package build directory it is to act on.
2932 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2933 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2934 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2938 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2940 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2941 ready to replace debstd.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400