1 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
5 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
6 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
7 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
8 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
9 notice until v2 is complete.
10 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
11 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
12 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
13 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
14 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
15 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
17 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
18 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
19 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
20 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
24 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
30 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
37 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
40 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
44 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
51 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
54 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
55 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
56 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
57 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
62 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
65 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
66 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
67 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
72 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
75 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
76 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
83 just skip files that end in -\d+.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
87 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
90 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
94 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
101 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
103 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
104 depend on the build and install targets.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
108 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
111 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
115 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
122 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
128 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
134 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
137 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
138 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
139 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
140 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
141 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
142 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
144 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
145 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
146 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
147 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
148 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
149 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
150 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
154 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
160 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
166 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
169 right place. Closes: #55065
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
173 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
180 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Make all examples rules files executable.
183 * Copyright date updates.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
187 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
190 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
195 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
201 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
208 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
214 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
220 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
226 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
229 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
230 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
231 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
232 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
233 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
234 bits until all files have been registered.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
238 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installmanpages:
241 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
242 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
243 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
244 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
245 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
246 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
247 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
248 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
249 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
250 otherwise change the result at all.
252 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
253 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
254 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
255 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
256 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
261 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
267 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
270 act on files that don't exist.
271 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
272 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
273 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
275 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
276 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
277 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
278 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
282 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
288 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
294 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
297 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
301 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
304 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
306 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
307 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
308 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
312 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
315 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
316 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
317 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
318 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
319 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
320 does not compress. Closes: #41733
321 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
323 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
325 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
329 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
336 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
342 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
348 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
351 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
355 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
361 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
367 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
370 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
371 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
372 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
373 I made some changes, though:
374 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
375 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
376 that is a clear violation of policy.
377 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
378 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
379 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
380 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
381 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
382 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
383 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
384 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
385 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
387 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
391 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
397 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
400 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
404 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
407 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
408 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
413 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
419 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
426 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
429 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
430 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
431 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
432 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
433 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
434 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
435 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
439 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
445 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
449 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
450 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
454 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
460 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
463 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
467 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
469 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
470 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
471 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
475 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
477 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
482 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
486 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
490 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
492 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
493 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
494 for the dependancies to be generated.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
501 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
508 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
509 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
510 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
515 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
518 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
519 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
523 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
529 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
535 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
538 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
542 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
548 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
550 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
551 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
552 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
553 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
554 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
555 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
556 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
557 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
558 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
559 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
560 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
561 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
562 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
566 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
568 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
569 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
570 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
572 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
573 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
574 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
575 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
576 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
577 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
579 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
580 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
584 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
587 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
591 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
593 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
598 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
600 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
601 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
606 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
609 for building debhelper.
610 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
614 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
621 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Fixed makefile commit target.
624 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
628 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
631 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
632 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
633 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
634 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
635 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
636 it's always available.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
640 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
643 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
644 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
645 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
652 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
653 modules. (Closes: #42171)
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
657 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
663 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
666 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
670 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
676 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
679 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
680 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
681 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
685 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
688 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
693 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
696 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
697 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
699 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
700 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
704 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
710 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
716 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
718 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
719 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
723 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
726 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
727 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
729 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
733 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
736 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
737 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
738 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
742 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
745 things if CDPATH is set.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
749 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
755 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
758 seems to make sense for the transition.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
762 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
765 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
770 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
773 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
774 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
778 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
781 that version. (Closes: #40589)
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
785 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
787 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
788 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
789 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
790 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
791 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
795 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
804 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
805 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
806 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
807 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
808 * debhelper.1: documented this.
809 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
810 current compatability level is equal to that number.
811 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
812 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
813 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
818 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
820 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
821 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
822 * README: mention doc/v2
823 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
824 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
828 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
830 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
831 be using this script RSN.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
835 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
838 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
839 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
840 more than 1 init script.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
844 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
847 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
851 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Changed perl version detection.
854 * Changed call to find.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
858 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
861 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
863 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
868 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Really include dh_installpam.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
874 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
877 * Wrote man page for same.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
881 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
884 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
885 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
890 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
897 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
900 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
901 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
902 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
907 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
910 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
911 well. (Closes: 38900)
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
915 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
918 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
919 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
923 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
929 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
936 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
942 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
944 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
945 help from Julian Gilbey.
946 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
947 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
948 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
949 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
950 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
951 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
952 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
957 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
963 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
965 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
970 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
976 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
982 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
985 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
989 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
992 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
996 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
999 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1003 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1009 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1012 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1016 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1022 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1028 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1031 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1032 may be deleted. (#35845)
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1036 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Various man page enhancements.
1039 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1044 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1047 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1048 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1052 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1055 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1056 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1057 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1059 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1060 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1065 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1071 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Another very minor typo fix.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1077 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Very minor typo fix.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1083 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1086 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1087 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1091 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1097 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1100 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1101 variables properly (#34850).
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1105 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1111 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1114 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1115 (automatically generated by build process).
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1119 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1121 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1125 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1128 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1129 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1131 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1135 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1138 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1142 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * README: minor typo fix.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1148 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1151 leave it at that. :-)
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1155 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1161 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1167 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1170 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1171 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1172 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1176 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1179 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1183 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1186 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1190 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1193 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1194 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1195 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1196 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1200 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1203 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1204 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1205 Craig Small for spotting this.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1209 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1212 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1213 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1217 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1223 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1226 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1230 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1232 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1233 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1234 working on the last version of debhelper.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1238 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1241 being made. (#23255)
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1245 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1251 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1254 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1258 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1261 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1262 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1263 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1264 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1268 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1271 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1272 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1273 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1274 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1276 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1277 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1279 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1284 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1290 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1296 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1299 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1300 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1301 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1302 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1303 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1304 suidregister actually supports it.
1305 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1306 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1310 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1317 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1320 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1321 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1322 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1323 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1324 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1325 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1326 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1330 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1332 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1333 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1337 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1340 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1341 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1342 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1343 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1347 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1350 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1352 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1353 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1354 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1355 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1356 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1357 effect, either. (#30118)
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1361 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1367 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1370 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1371 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1375 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1381 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1384 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1385 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1386 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1387 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1391 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1394 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1395 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1399 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1405 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1408 packages, painlessly.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1412 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1418 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1424 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1430 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * The perl conversion is complete.
1434 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1436 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1437 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1438 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1443 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1446 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1447 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1448 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1452 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1455 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1457 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1459 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1460 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1464 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1467 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1468 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1472 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1478 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1481 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1482 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1483 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1484 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1485 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1489 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1492 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1493 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1494 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1495 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1499 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1502 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1506 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1509 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1510 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1511 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1512 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1513 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1514 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1515 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1516 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1520 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1526 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1529 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1530 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1531 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1536 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1539 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1543 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1546 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1550 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1553 sections of shared libraries.
1554 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1555 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1556 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1557 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1558 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1559 things you don't want them to.
1560 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1561 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1565 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1568 shared libraries. (#26414)
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1572 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1574 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1575 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1576 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1577 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1581 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1585 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1587 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1588 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1589 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1590 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1591 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1595 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1598 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1602 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1605 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1606 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1611 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1614 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1618 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1621 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1622 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1623 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1624 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1625 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1627 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1628 remove debian/files properly.
1629 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1630 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1631 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1632 * Removed bogus menu file.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1636 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1639 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1643 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1646 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1647 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1648 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1649 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1650 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1651 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1655 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1658 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1659 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1660 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1661 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1665 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1672 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1675 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1676 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1678 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1679 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1680 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1681 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1682 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1683 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1687 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1690 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1691 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1692 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1693 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1694 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1695 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1696 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1697 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1698 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1699 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1700 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1701 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1702 passed any switches.
1703 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1707 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1710 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1711 at all for a long while.
1712 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1713 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1714 large chunks in the process.
1715 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1716 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1717 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1722 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1725 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1727 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1732 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1735 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1736 that don't always have the same files in them.
1737 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1738 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1739 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1743 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1747 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1748 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1749 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1750 updating 27 man pages.
1751 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1752 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1753 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1754 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1755 programs act on. (#25247)
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1759 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1763 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1764 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1765 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1766 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1767 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1768 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1773 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1780 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1787 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1790 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1794 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1800 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1803 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1804 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1805 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1806 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1807 package by accident.
1808 * Is version 1.0 next?
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1812 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1815 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1816 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1820 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1823 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1824 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1825 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1826 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1827 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1829 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1834 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1837 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1838 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1842 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1845 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1849 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1852 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1853 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1858 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1864 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1867 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1868 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1873 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1879 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1882 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1883 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1884 past week. Thanks, guys!
1886 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1887 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1888 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1889 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1890 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1891 would do in the same situation.
1892 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1893 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1895 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1897 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1898 permissions changed.
1899 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1900 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1901 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1902 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1903 files are treated identically.
1904 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1905 * Minor man page fixes.
1906 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1907 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1908 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1912 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1915 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1916 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1917 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1918 use -X multiple times, too.
1919 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1920 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1924 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1927 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1928 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1932 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1935 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1939 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1942 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1943 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1944 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1945 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1946 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1947 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1948 shape if you're starting a new package.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1952 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1955 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1959 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1962 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1963 because of missing symlinks.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1967 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1973 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1976 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1977 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1978 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1979 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1980 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1982 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1983 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1987 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1989 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1990 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1991 to be changed after the fact :-)
1992 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1996 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1999 no version string after the -V.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2003 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2005 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2006 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2011 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2014 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2018 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2021 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2022 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2023 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2024 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2025 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2026 I always welcome corrections!
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2030 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2036 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2039 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2040 * Documented this new switch.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2044 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2047 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2048 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2049 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2050 no packages use the old behavior.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2054 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2057 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2058 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2062 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2065 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2069 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2075 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2078 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2082 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2085 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2086 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2087 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2091 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2097 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2100 into the source package by accident.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2104 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2107 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2108 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2109 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2110 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2111 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2112 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2117 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2121 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2122 inspired to implement some of it.
2123 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2127 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2130 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2134 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2137 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2138 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2142 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2145 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2146 have done.) (#17598)
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2150 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2156 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2162 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2165 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2169 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2172 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2173 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2177 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2180 argument processor in perl.
2181 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2182 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2183 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2184 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2188 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2191 type directories. (#16933)
2192 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2193 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2194 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2195 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2196 are supported. (#16935)
2197 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2202 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2205 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2209 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2213 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2214 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2215 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2216 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2217 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2218 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2222 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2225 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2226 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2228 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2229 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2230 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2231 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2232 a given package, or -i or -a.
2233 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2234 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2235 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2236 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2237 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2238 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2239 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2240 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2241 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2243 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2244 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2245 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2249 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2252 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2253 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2258 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2261 does not have a section.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2265 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2268 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2269 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2270 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2274 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Fixed typo #16215.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2280 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2283 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2284 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2285 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2286 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2287 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2292 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2295 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2296 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2297 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2302 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2308 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2314 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2317 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2318 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2319 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2320 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2321 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2322 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2326 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2332 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2335 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2339 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2342 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2343 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2344 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2348 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2351 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2355 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2361 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2364 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2368 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2371 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2375 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2381 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2384 postinst, postrm, etc.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2388 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2394 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2397 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2398 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2399 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2400 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2401 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2405 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2408 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2409 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2413 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2416 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2420 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2423 installing package files into.
2424 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2429 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2433 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2437 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2443 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2446 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2450 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2453 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2454 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2455 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2456 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2460 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2462 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2463 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2464 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2465 multiple binary packages.
2466 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2467 should rebuild them with this version.
2468 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2472 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2475 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2479 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2482 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2486 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2489 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2490 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2491 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2492 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2493 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2494 debian/README.debian.
2495 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2496 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2497 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2498 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2499 in a few situations.)
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2503 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2509 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2515 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2518 * Fixed several man pages.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2522 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2525 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2526 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2530 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2533 is ready for general use.
2534 * Added man pages for all commands.
2535 * Multiple binary package support.
2536 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2537 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2538 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2540 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2541 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2542 auto-installed as parameters.
2543 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2545 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2548 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2549 the package build directory it is to act on.
2550 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2551 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2552 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2556 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2558 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2559 ready to replace debstd.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400