1 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Nov 1999 15:00:21 -0800
7 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
10 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
14 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
17 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
19 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
20 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
21 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
25 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
28 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
29 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
30 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
31 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
32 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extentions dh_compress
33 does not compress. Closes: #41733
34 * Also, made all extentions dh_compress skips be looked at case
36 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
38 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
42 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
49 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
55 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
61 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
64 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
68 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
74 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
83 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
84 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
85 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
86 I made some changes, though:
87 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
88 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
89 that is a clear violation of policy.
90 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
91 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
92 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
93 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
94 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
95 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
96 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
97 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
98 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
100 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
104 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
110 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
113 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
120 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
121 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
126 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
132 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
139 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
142 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
143 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
144 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
145 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
146 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
147 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
148 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
152 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
158 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
162 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
163 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
167 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
173 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
176 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
180 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
183 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
184 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
188 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
190 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
195 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
199 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
203 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
205 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
206 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
207 for the dependancies to be generated.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
211 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
214 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
218 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
221 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
222 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
223 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
228 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
231 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
232 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
236 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
242 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
248 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
251 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
255 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
261 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
263 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
264 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
265 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
266 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
267 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
268 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
269 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
270 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
271 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
272 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
273 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
274 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
275 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
279 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
281 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
282 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
283 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
285 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
286 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
287 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
288 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
289 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
290 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
292 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
293 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
297 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
300 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
304 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
311 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
313 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
314 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
319 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
322 for building debhelper.
323 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
327 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
334 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Fixed makefile commit target.
337 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
341 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
344 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
345 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
346 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
347 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
348 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
349 it's always available.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
353 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
356 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
357 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
358 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
362 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
365 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
366 modules. (Closes: #42171)
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
370 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
376 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
379 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
383 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
389 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
392 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
393 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
394 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
398 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
401 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
406 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
409 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
410 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
412 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
413 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
417 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
423 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
429 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
431 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
432 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
436 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
439 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
440 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
442 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
446 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
449 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
450 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
451 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
455 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
458 things if CDPATH is set.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
462 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
468 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
471 seems to make sense for the transition.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
475 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
478 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
483 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
486 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
487 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
494 that version. (Closes: #40589)
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
500 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
501 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
502 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
503 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
504 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
508 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
514 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
517 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
518 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
519 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
520 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
521 * debhelper.1: documented this.
522 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
523 current compatability level is equal to that number.
524 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
525 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
526 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
531 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
533 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
534 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
535 * README: mention doc/v2
536 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
537 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
541 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
543 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
544 be using this script RSN.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
548 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
551 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
552 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
553 more than 1 init script.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
557 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
560 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
564 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Changed perl version detection.
567 * Changed call to find.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
571 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
574 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
576 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
581 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Really include dh_installpam.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
587 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
590 * Wrote man page for same.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
594 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
597 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
598 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
603 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
610 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
613 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
614 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
615 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
620 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
623 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
624 well. (Closes: 38900)
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
628 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
631 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
632 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
636 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
642 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
649 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
655 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
657 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
658 help from Julian Gilbey.
659 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
660 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
661 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
662 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
663 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
664 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
665 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
670 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
676 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
678 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
683 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
689 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
695 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
698 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
702 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
705 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
709 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
712 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
716 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
722 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
725 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
729 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
731 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
735 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
737 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
741 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
744 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
745 may be deleted. (#35845)
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
749 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Various man page enhancements.
752 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
757 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
760 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
761 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
765 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
768 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
769 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
770 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
772 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
773 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
778 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
784 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Another very minor typo fix.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
790 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Very minor typo fix.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
796 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
799 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
800 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
804 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
810 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
812 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
813 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
814 variables properly (#34850).
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
818 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
820 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
824 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
827 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
828 (automatically generated by build process).
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
832 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
834 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
838 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
841 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
842 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
844 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
848 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
851 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
855 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
857 * README: minor typo fix.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
861 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
864 leave it at that. :-)
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
868 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
874 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
880 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
883 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
884 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
885 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
889 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
892 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
896 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
899 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
903 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
906 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
907 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
908 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
909 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
913 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
916 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
917 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
918 Craig Small for spotting this.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
922 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
925 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
926 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
930 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
936 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
939 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
943 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
945 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
946 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
947 working on the last version of debhelper.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
951 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
958 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
960 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
964 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
967 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
971 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
973 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
974 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
975 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
976 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
977 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
981 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
984 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
985 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
986 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
987 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
989 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
990 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
992 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
997 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
999 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1003 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1009 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1012 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1013 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1014 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1015 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1016 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1017 suidregister actually supports it.
1018 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1019 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1023 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1030 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1033 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1034 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1035 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1036 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1037 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1038 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1039 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1043 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1045 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1046 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1050 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1053 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1054 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1055 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1056 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1060 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1063 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1065 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1066 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1067 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1068 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1069 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1070 effect, either. (#30118)
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1074 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1080 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1083 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1084 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1088 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1094 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1097 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1098 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1099 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1100 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1104 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1107 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1108 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1112 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1118 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1121 packages, painlessly.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1125 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1131 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1137 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1143 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * The perl conversion is complete.
1147 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1149 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1150 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1151 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1156 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1159 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1160 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1161 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1165 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1168 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1170 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1172 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1173 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1177 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1180 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1181 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1185 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1191 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1194 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1195 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1196 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1197 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1198 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1202 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1205 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1206 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1207 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1208 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1212 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1215 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1219 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1222 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1223 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1224 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1225 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1226 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1227 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1228 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1229 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1233 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1239 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1242 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1243 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1244 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1249 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1252 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1256 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1259 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1263 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1266 sections of shared libraries.
1267 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1268 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1269 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1270 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1271 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1272 things you don't want them to.
1273 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1274 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1278 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1281 shared libraries. (#26414)
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1285 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1287 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1288 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1289 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1290 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1294 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1298 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1300 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1301 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1302 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1303 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1304 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1308 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1311 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1315 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1318 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1319 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1324 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1327 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1331 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1334 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1335 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1336 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1337 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1338 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1340 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1341 remove debian/files properly.
1342 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1343 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1344 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1345 * Removed bogus menu file.
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1349 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1352 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1356 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1359 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1360 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1361 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1362 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1363 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1364 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1368 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1371 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1372 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1373 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1374 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1378 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1385 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1388 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1389 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1391 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1392 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1393 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1394 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1395 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1396 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1400 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1403 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1404 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1405 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1406 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1407 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1408 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1409 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1410 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1411 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1412 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1413 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1414 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1415 passed any switches.
1416 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1420 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1423 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1424 at all for a long while.
1425 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1426 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1427 large chunks in the process.
1428 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1429 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1430 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1435 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1438 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1440 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1445 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1448 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1449 that don't always have the same files in them.
1450 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1451 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1452 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1456 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1460 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1461 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1462 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1463 updating 27 man pages.
1464 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1465 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1466 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1467 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1468 programs act on. (#25247)
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1472 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1476 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1477 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1478 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1479 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1480 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1481 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1486 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1493 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1500 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1503 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1507 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1513 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1516 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1517 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1518 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1519 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1520 package by accident.
1521 * Is version 1.0 next?
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1525 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1528 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1529 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1533 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1536 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1537 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1538 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1539 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1540 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1542 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1547 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1550 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1551 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1555 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1558 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1562 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1565 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1566 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1571 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1577 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1580 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1581 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1586 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1592 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1595 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1596 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1597 past week. Thanks, guys!
1599 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1600 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1601 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1602 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1603 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1604 would do in the same situation.
1605 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1606 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1608 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1610 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1611 permissions changed.
1612 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1613 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1614 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1615 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1616 files are treated identically.
1617 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1618 * Minor man page fixes.
1619 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1620 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1621 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1625 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1628 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1629 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1630 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1631 use -X multiple times, too.
1632 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1633 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1637 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1640 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1641 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1645 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1648 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1652 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1655 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1656 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1657 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1658 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1659 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1660 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1661 shape if you're starting a new package.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1665 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1668 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1672 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1675 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1676 because of missing symlinks.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1680 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1686 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1689 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1690 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1691 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1692 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1693 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1695 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1696 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1700 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1702 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1703 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1704 to be changed after the fact :-)
1705 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1709 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1712 no version string after the -V.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1716 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1718 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1719 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1724 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1727 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1731 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1734 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1735 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1736 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1737 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1738 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1739 I always welcome corrections!
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1743 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1749 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1752 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1753 * Documented this new switch.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1757 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1760 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1761 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1762 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1763 no packages use the old behavior.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1767 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1770 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1771 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1775 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1778 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1782 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1788 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1791 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1795 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1798 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1799 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1800 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1804 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1810 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1813 into the source package by accident.
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1817 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1820 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1821 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1822 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1823 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1824 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1825 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1830 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1834 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1835 inspired to implement some of it.
1836 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1840 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1843 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1847 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1850 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1851 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1855 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1858 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1859 have done.) (#17598)
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1863 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1869 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1875 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1878 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1882 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1885 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1886 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1890 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1893 argument processor in perl.
1894 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1895 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1896 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1897 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1901 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1904 type directories. (#16933)
1905 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1906 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1907 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1908 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1909 are supported. (#16935)
1910 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1915 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1918 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1922 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1926 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1927 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1928 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1929 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1930 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1931 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1935 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1938 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1939 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1941 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1942 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1943 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1944 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1945 a given package, or -i or -a.
1946 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1947 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1948 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1949 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1950 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1951 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1952 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1953 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1954 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1956 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1957 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1958 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1962 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1965 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1966 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1971 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1974 does not have a section.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1978 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1981 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1982 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1983 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1987 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Fixed typo #16215.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1993 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1996 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1997 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1998 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1999 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2000 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2005 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2008 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2009 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2010 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2015 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2021 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2027 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2030 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2031 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2032 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2033 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2034 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2035 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2039 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2045 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2048 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2052 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2055 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2056 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2057 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2061 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2064 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2068 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2074 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2077 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2081 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2084 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2088 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2094 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2097 postinst, postrm, etc.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2101 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2107 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2110 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2111 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2112 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2113 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2114 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2118 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2121 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2122 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2126 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2129 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2133 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2136 installing package files into.
2137 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2142 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2146 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2150 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2156 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2159 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2163 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2166 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2167 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2168 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2169 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2173 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2175 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2176 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2177 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2178 multiple binary packages.
2179 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2180 should rebuild them with this version.
2181 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2185 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2188 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2192 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2195 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2199 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2202 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2203 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2204 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2205 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2206 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2207 debian/README.debian.
2208 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2209 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2210 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2211 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2212 in a few situations.)
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2216 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2222 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2228 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2231 * Fixed several man pages.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2235 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2238 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2239 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2243 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2246 is ready for general use.
2247 * Added man pages for all commands.
2248 * Multiple binary package support.
2249 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2250 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2251 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2253 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2254 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2255 auto-installed as parameters.
2256 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2258 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2261 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2262 the package build directory it is to act on.
2263 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2264 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2265 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2269 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2271 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2272 ready to replace debstd.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400