1 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
5 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
6 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
7 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
8 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extentions dh_compress
9 does not compress. Closes: #41733
10 * Also, made all extentions dh_compress skips be looked at case
12 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
14 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
18 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
25 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
31 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
37 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
40 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
44 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
50 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
56 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
59 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
60 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
61 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
62 I made some changes, though:
63 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
64 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
65 that is a clear violation of policy.
66 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
67 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
68 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
69 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
70 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
71 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
72 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
73 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
74 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
76 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
86 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
89 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
93 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
96 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
97 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
102 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
108 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
115 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
118 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
119 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
120 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
121 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
122 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
123 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
124 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
128 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
134 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
138 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
139 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
143 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
149 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
152 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
156 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
159 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
160 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
164 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
166 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
171 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
175 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
179 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
181 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
182 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
183 for the dependancies to be generated.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
187 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
190 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
197 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
198 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
199 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
204 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
207 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
208 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
212 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
218 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
224 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
227 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
231 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
237 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
239 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
240 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
241 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
242 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
243 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
244 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
245 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
246 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
247 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
248 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
249 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
250 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
251 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
255 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
257 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
258 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
259 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
261 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
262 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
263 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
264 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
265 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
266 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
268 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
269 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
273 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
276 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
280 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
287 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
289 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
290 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
295 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
298 for building debhelper.
299 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
303 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
310 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Fixed makefile commit target.
313 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
317 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
320 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
321 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
322 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
323 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
324 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
325 it's always available.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
329 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
332 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
333 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
334 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
338 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
341 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
342 modules. (Closes: #42171)
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
346 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
352 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
355 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
359 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
365 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
368 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
369 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
370 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
374 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
377 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
382 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
385 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
386 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
388 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
389 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
393 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
399 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
405 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
407 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
408 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
412 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
415 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
416 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
418 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
422 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
425 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
426 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
427 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
431 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
434 things if CDPATH is set.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
438 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
444 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
447 seems to make sense for the transition.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
451 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
454 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
459 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
462 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
463 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
467 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
470 that version. (Closes: #40589)
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
474 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
476 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
477 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
478 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
479 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
480 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
484 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
490 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
493 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
494 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
495 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
496 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
497 * debhelper.1: documented this.
498 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
499 current compatability level is equal to that number.
500 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
501 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
502 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
507 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
509 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
510 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
511 * README: mention doc/v2
512 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
513 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
517 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
519 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
520 be using this script RSN.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
524 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
527 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
528 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
529 more than 1 init script.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
533 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
536 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
540 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Changed perl version detection.
543 * Changed call to find.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
547 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
550 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
552 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
557 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Really include dh_installpam.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
563 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
566 * Wrote man page for same.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
570 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
573 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
574 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
579 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
586 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
589 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
590 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
591 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
596 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
599 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
600 well. (Closes: 38900)
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
604 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
607 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
608 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
612 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
618 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
625 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
631 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
633 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
634 help from Julian Gilbey.
635 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
636 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
637 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
638 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
639 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
640 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
641 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
646 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
652 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
654 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
659 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
665 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
671 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
674 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
678 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
681 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
685 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
688 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
692 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
698 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
701 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
705 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
707 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
711 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
713 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
717 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
720 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
721 may be deleted. (#35845)
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
725 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Various man page enhancements.
728 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
733 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
736 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
737 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
741 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
744 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
745 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
746 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
748 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
749 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
754 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
760 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Another very minor typo fix.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
766 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Very minor typo fix.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
772 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
775 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
776 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
780 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
786 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
788 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
789 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
790 variables properly (#34850).
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
794 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
796 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
800 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
803 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
804 (automatically generated by build process).
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
808 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
810 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
814 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
817 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
818 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
820 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
824 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
827 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
831 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
833 * README: minor typo fix.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
837 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
840 leave it at that. :-)
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
844 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
850 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
856 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
859 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
860 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
861 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
865 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
868 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
872 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
875 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
879 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
882 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
883 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
884 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
885 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
889 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
892 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
893 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
894 Craig Small for spotting this.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
898 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
901 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
902 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
906 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
912 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
915 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
919 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
921 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
922 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
923 working on the last version of debhelper.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
927 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
934 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
936 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
940 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
943 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
947 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
949 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
950 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
951 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
952 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
953 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
957 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
960 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
961 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
962 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
963 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
965 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
966 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
968 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
973 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
975 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
979 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
985 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
988 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
989 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
990 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
991 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
992 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
993 suidregister actually supports it.
994 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
995 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
999 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1006 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1009 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1010 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1011 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1012 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1013 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1014 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1015 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1019 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1021 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1022 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1026 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1029 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1030 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1031 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1032 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1036 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1039 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1041 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1042 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1043 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1044 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1045 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1046 effect, either. (#30118)
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1050 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1056 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1059 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1060 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1064 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1070 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1073 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1074 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1075 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1076 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1080 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1083 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1084 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1088 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1094 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1097 packages, painlessly.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1101 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1107 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1113 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1119 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * The perl conversion is complete.
1123 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1125 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1126 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1127 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1132 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1135 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1136 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1137 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1141 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1144 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1146 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1148 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1149 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1153 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1156 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1157 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1161 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1167 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1170 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1171 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1172 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1173 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1174 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1178 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1181 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1182 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1183 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1184 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1188 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1191 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1195 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1198 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1199 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1200 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1201 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1202 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1203 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1204 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1205 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1209 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1215 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1218 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1219 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1220 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1225 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1228 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1232 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1235 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1239 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1242 sections of shared libraries.
1243 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1244 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1245 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1246 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1247 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1248 things you don't want them to.
1249 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1250 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1254 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1257 shared libraries. (#26414)
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1261 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1263 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1264 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1265 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1266 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1270 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1274 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1276 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1277 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1278 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1279 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1280 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1284 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1287 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1291 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1294 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1295 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1300 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1303 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1307 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1310 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1311 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1312 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1313 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1314 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1316 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1317 remove debian/files properly.
1318 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1319 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1320 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1321 * Removed bogus menu file.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1325 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1328 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1332 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1335 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1336 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1337 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1338 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1339 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1340 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1344 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1347 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1348 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1349 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1350 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1354 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1361 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1364 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1365 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1367 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1368 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1369 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1370 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1371 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1372 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1376 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1379 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1380 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1381 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1382 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1383 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1384 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1385 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1386 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1387 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1388 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1389 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1390 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1391 passed any switches.
1392 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1396 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1399 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1400 at all for a long while.
1401 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1402 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1403 large chunks in the process.
1404 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1405 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1406 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1411 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1414 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1416 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1421 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1424 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1425 that don't always have the same files in them.
1426 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1427 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1428 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1432 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1436 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1437 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1438 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1439 updating 27 man pages.
1440 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1441 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1442 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1443 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1444 programs act on. (#25247)
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1448 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1452 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1453 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1454 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1455 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1456 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1457 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1462 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1469 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1476 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1479 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1483 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1489 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1492 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1493 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1494 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1495 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1496 package by accident.
1497 * Is version 1.0 next?
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1501 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1504 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1505 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1509 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1512 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1513 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1514 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1515 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1516 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1518 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1523 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1526 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1527 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1531 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1534 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1538 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1541 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1542 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1547 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1553 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1556 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1557 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1562 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1568 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1571 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1572 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1573 past week. Thanks, guys!
1575 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1576 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1577 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1578 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1579 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1580 would do in the same situation.
1581 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1582 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1584 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1586 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1587 permissions changed.
1588 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1589 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1590 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1591 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1592 files are treated identically.
1593 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1594 * Minor man page fixes.
1595 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1596 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1597 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1601 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1604 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1605 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1606 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1607 use -X multiple times, too.
1608 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1609 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1613 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1616 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1617 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1621 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1624 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1628 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1631 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1632 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1633 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1634 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1635 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1636 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1637 shape if you're starting a new package.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1641 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1644 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1648 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1651 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1652 because of missing symlinks.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1656 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1662 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1665 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1666 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1667 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1668 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1669 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1671 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1672 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1676 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1678 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1679 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1680 to be changed after the fact :-)
1681 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1685 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1688 no version string after the -V.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1692 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1694 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1695 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1700 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1703 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1707 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1710 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1711 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1712 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1713 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1714 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1715 I always welcome corrections!
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1719 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1725 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1728 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1729 * Documented this new switch.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1733 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1736 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1737 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1738 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1739 no packages use the old behavior.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1743 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1746 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1747 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1751 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1754 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1758 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1764 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1767 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1771 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1774 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1775 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1776 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1780 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1786 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1789 into the source package by accident.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1793 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1796 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1797 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1798 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1799 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1800 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1801 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1806 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1810 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1811 inspired to implement some of it.
1812 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1816 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1819 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1823 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1826 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1827 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1831 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1834 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1835 have done.) (#17598)
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1839 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1845 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1851 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1854 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1858 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1861 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1862 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1866 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1869 argument processor in perl.
1870 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1871 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1872 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1873 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1877 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1880 type directories. (#16933)
1881 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1882 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1883 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1884 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1885 are supported. (#16935)
1886 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1891 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1894 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1898 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1902 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1903 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1904 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1905 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1906 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1907 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1911 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1914 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1915 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1917 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1918 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1919 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1920 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1921 a given package, or -i or -a.
1922 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1923 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1924 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1925 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1926 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1927 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1928 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1929 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1930 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1932 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1933 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1934 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1938 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1941 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1942 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1947 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1950 does not have a section.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1954 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1957 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1958 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1959 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1963 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Fixed typo #16215.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1969 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1972 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1973 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1974 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1975 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1976 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1981 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1984 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1985 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1986 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1991 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1997 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2003 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2006 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2007 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2008 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2009 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2010 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2011 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2015 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2021 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2024 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2028 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2031 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2032 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2033 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2037 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2040 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2044 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2050 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2053 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2057 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2060 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2064 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2070 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2073 postinst, postrm, etc.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2077 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2083 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2086 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2087 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2088 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2089 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2090 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2094 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2097 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2098 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2102 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2105 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2109 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2112 installing package files into.
2113 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2118 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2122 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2126 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2132 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2135 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2139 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2142 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2143 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2144 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2145 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2149 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2151 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2152 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2153 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2154 multiple binary packages.
2155 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2156 should rebuild them with this version.
2157 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2161 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2164 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2168 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2171 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2175 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2178 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2179 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2180 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2181 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2182 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2183 debian/README.debian.
2184 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2185 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2186 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2187 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2188 in a few situations.)
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2192 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2198 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2204 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2207 * Fixed several man pages.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2211 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2214 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2215 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2219 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2222 is ready for general use.
2223 * Added man pages for all commands.
2224 * Multiple binary package support.
2225 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2226 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2227 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2229 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2230 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2231 auto-installed as parameters.
2232 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2234 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2237 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2238 the package build directory it is to act on.
2239 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2240 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2241 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2245 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2247 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2248 ready to replace debstd.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400