1 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
8 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
11 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
12 prevent that. Closes: #73052
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
16 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Typo, Closes: #72932
19 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
20 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
21 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
22 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
26 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
32 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
39 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
42 (this appears to be logal).
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
46 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
49 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
50 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
51 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
52 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
56 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
62 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
64 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
65 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
66 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
67 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
68 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
72 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
78 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
81 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
85 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
92 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
95 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
96 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
97 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
102 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
109 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
115 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
117 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
118 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
119 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
120 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
121 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
122 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
123 notice until v2 is complete.
124 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
125 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
126 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
127 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
128 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
129 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
131 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
132 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
133 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
134 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
138 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
144 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
151 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
154 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
158 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
165 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
168 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
169 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
170 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
171 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
176 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
179 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
180 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
181 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
186 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
189 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
190 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
197 just skip files that end in -\d+.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
201 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
204 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
208 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
217 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
218 depend on the build and install targets.
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
222 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
225 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
229 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
236 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
238 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
242 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
248 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
251 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
252 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
253 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
254 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
255 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
256 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
258 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
259 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
260 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
261 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
262 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
263 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
264 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
268 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
274 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
280 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
283 right place. Closes: #55065
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
287 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
294 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Make all examples rules files executable.
297 * Copyright date updates.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
301 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
304 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
309 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
315 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
322 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
328 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
334 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
340 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
343 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
344 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
345 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
346 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
347 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
348 bits until all files have been registered.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
352 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installmanpages:
355 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
356 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
357 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
358 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
359 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
360 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
361 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
362 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
363 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
364 otherwise change the result at all.
366 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
367 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
368 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
369 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
370 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
375 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
381 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
384 act on files that don't exist.
385 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
386 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
387 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
389 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
390 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
391 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
392 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
396 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
402 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
408 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
411 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
415 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
418 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
420 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
421 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
422 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
426 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
429 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
430 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
431 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
432 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
433 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
434 does not compress. Closes: #41733
435 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
437 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
439 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
443 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
450 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
456 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
462 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
465 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
469 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
475 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
481 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
484 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
485 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
486 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
487 I made some changes, though:
488 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
489 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
490 that is a clear violation of policy.
491 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
492 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
493 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
494 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
495 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
496 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
497 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
498 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
499 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
501 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
511 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
514 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
518 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
521 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
522 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
527 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
533 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
540 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
543 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
544 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
545 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
546 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
547 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
548 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
549 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
553 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
559 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
563 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
564 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
568 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
574 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
577 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
581 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
584 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
585 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
589 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
591 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
596 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
600 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
604 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
606 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
607 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
608 for the dependancies to be generated.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
612 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
615 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
619 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
622 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
623 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
624 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
629 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
632 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
633 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
637 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
652 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
656 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
662 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
664 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
665 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
666 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
667 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
668 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
669 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
670 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
671 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
672 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
673 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
674 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
675 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
676 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
680 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
682 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
683 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
684 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
686 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
687 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
688 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
689 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
690 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
691 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
693 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
694 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
698 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
701 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
705 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
712 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
714 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
715 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
720 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
723 for building debhelper.
724 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
728 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
735 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Fixed makefile commit target.
738 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
742 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
745 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
746 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
747 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
748 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
749 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
750 it's always available.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
754 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
757 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
758 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
759 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
763 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
766 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
767 modules. (Closes: #42171)
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
771 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
777 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
780 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
784 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
790 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
793 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
794 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
795 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
802 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
807 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
810 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
811 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
813 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
814 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
818 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
824 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
830 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
832 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
833 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
837 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
840 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
841 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
843 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
847 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
850 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
851 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
852 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
856 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
859 things if CDPATH is set.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
863 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
869 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
872 seems to make sense for the transition.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
876 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
879 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
884 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
887 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
888 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
892 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
895 that version. (Closes: #40589)
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
899 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
901 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
902 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
903 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
904 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
905 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
909 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
915 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
918 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
919 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
920 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
921 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
922 * debhelper.1: documented this.
923 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
924 current compatability level is equal to that number.
925 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
926 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
927 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
932 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
934 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
935 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
936 * README: mention doc/v2
937 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
938 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
942 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
944 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
945 be using this script RSN.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
949 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
952 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
953 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
954 more than 1 init script.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
958 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
961 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
965 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Changed perl version detection.
968 * Changed call to find.
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
972 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
975 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
977 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
982 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Really include dh_installpam.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
988 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
991 * Wrote man page for same.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
995 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
998 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
999 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1004 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1011 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1014 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1015 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1016 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1017 x bit was being set!
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1021 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1024 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1025 well. (Closes: 38900)
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1029 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1032 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1033 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1037 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1043 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1050 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1056 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1059 help from Julian Gilbey.
1060 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1061 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1062 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1063 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1064 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1065 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1066 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1071 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1077 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1084 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1090 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1096 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1099 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1103 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1106 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1110 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1113 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1117 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1123 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1126 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1130 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1136 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1142 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1145 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1146 may be deleted. (#35845)
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1150 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Various man page enhancements.
1153 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1158 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1161 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1162 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1166 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1169 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1170 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1171 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1173 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1174 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1179 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1185 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Another very minor typo fix.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1191 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Very minor typo fix.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1197 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1200 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1201 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1205 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1211 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1214 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1215 variables properly (#34850).
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1219 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1225 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1228 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1229 (automatically generated by build process).
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1233 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1235 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1239 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1242 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1243 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1245 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1249 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1252 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1256 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * README: minor typo fix.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1262 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1265 leave it at that. :-)
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1269 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1275 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1281 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1284 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1285 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1286 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1290 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1293 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1297 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1300 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1304 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1307 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1308 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1309 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1310 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1314 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1317 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1318 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1319 Craig Small for spotting this.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1323 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1326 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1327 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1331 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1337 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1340 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1344 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1346 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1347 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1348 working on the last version of debhelper.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1352 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1355 being made. (#23255)
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1359 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1365 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1368 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1372 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1375 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1376 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1377 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1378 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1382 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1385 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1386 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1387 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1388 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1390 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1391 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1393 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1398 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1404 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1410 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1413 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1414 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1415 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1416 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1417 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1418 suidregister actually supports it.
1419 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1420 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1424 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1431 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1434 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1435 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1436 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1437 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1438 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1439 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1440 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1444 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1446 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1447 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1451 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1454 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1455 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1456 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1457 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1461 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1464 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1466 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1467 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1468 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1469 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1470 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1471 effect, either. (#30118)
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1475 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1481 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1484 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1485 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1489 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1495 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1498 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1499 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1500 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1501 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1505 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1508 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1509 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1513 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1519 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1522 packages, painlessly.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1526 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1532 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1538 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1544 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * The perl conversion is complete.
1548 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1550 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1551 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1552 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1557 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1560 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1561 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1562 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1566 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1569 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1571 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1573 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1574 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1578 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1581 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1582 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1586 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1592 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1595 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1596 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1597 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1598 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1599 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1603 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1606 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1607 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1608 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1609 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1613 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1616 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1620 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1623 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1624 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1625 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1626 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1627 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1628 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1629 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1630 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1634 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1640 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1643 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1644 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1645 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1650 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1653 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1657 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1660 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1664 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1667 sections of shared libraries.
1668 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1669 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1670 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1671 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1672 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1673 things you don't want them to.
1674 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1675 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1679 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1682 shared libraries. (#26414)
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1686 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1688 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1689 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1690 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1691 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1695 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1699 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1701 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1702 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1703 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1704 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1705 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1709 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1712 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1716 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1719 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1720 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1725 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1728 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1732 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1735 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1736 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1737 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1738 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1739 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1741 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1742 remove debian/files properly.
1743 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1744 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1745 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1746 * Removed bogus menu file.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1750 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1753 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1757 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1760 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1761 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1762 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1763 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1764 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1765 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1769 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1772 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1773 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1774 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1775 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1779 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1786 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1789 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1790 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1792 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1793 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1794 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1795 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1796 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1797 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1801 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1804 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1805 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1806 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1807 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1808 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1809 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1810 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1811 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1812 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1813 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1814 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1815 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1816 passed any switches.
1817 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1821 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1824 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1825 at all for a long while.
1826 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1827 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1828 large chunks in the process.
1829 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1830 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1831 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1836 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1839 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1841 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1846 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1849 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1850 that don't always have the same files in them.
1851 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1852 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1853 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1857 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1861 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1862 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1863 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1864 updating 27 man pages.
1865 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1866 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1867 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1868 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1869 programs act on. (#25247)
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1873 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1877 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1878 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1879 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1880 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1881 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1882 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1887 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1894 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1901 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1904 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1908 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1914 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1917 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1918 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1919 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1920 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1921 package by accident.
1922 * Is version 1.0 next?
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1926 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1929 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1930 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1934 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1937 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1938 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1939 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1940 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1941 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1943 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1948 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1951 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1952 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1956 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1959 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1963 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1966 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1967 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1972 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1978 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1981 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1982 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1987 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1993 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1996 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1997 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1998 past week. Thanks, guys!
2000 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2001 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2002 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2003 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2004 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2005 would do in the same situation.
2006 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2007 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2009 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2011 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2012 permissions changed.
2013 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2014 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2015 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2016 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2017 files are treated identically.
2018 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2019 * Minor man page fixes.
2020 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2021 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2022 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2026 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2029 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2030 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2031 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2032 use -X multiple times, too.
2033 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2034 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2038 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2041 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2042 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2046 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2049 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2053 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2056 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2057 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2058 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2059 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2060 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2061 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2062 shape if you're starting a new package.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2066 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2069 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2073 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2076 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2077 because of missing symlinks.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2081 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2087 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2090 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2091 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2092 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2093 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2094 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2096 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2097 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2101 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2103 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2104 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2105 to be changed after the fact :-)
2106 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2110 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2113 no version string after the -V.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2117 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2119 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2120 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2125 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2128 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2132 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2135 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2136 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2137 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2138 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2139 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2140 I always welcome corrections!
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2144 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2150 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2153 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2154 * Documented this new switch.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2158 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2161 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2162 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2163 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2164 no packages use the old behavior.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2168 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2171 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2172 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2176 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2179 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2183 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2189 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2192 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2196 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2199 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2200 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2201 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2205 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2211 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2214 into the source package by accident.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2218 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2221 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2222 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2223 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2224 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2225 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2226 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2231 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2235 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2236 inspired to implement some of it.
2237 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2241 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2244 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2248 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2251 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2252 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2256 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2259 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2260 have done.) (#17598)
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2264 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2270 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2276 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2279 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2283 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2286 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2287 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2291 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2294 argument processor in perl.
2295 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2296 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2297 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2298 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2302 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2305 type directories. (#16933)
2306 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2307 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2308 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2309 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2310 are supported. (#16935)
2311 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2316 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2319 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2323 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2327 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2328 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2329 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2330 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2331 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2332 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2336 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2339 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2340 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2342 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2343 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2344 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2345 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2346 a given package, or -i or -a.
2347 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2348 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2349 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2350 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2351 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2352 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2353 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2354 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2355 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2357 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2358 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2359 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2363 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2366 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2367 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2372 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2375 does not have a section.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2379 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2382 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2383 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2384 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2388 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Fixed typo #16215.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2394 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2397 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2398 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2399 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2400 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2401 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2406 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2409 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2410 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2411 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2416 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2422 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2428 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2431 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2432 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2433 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2434 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2435 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2436 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2440 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2446 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2449 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2453 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2456 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2457 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2458 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2462 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2465 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2469 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2475 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2478 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2482 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2485 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2489 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2495 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2498 postinst, postrm, etc.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2502 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2508 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2511 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2512 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2513 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2514 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2515 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2519 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2522 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2523 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2527 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2530 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2534 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2537 installing package files into.
2538 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2543 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2547 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2551 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2557 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2560 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2564 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2567 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2568 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2569 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2570 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2574 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2576 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2577 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2578 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2579 multiple binary packages.
2580 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2581 should rebuild them with this version.
2582 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2586 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2589 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2593 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2596 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2600 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2603 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2604 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2605 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2606 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2607 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2608 debian/README.debian.
2609 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2610 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2611 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2612 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2613 in a few situations.)
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2617 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2623 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2629 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2632 * Fixed several man pages.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2636 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2639 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2640 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2644 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2647 is ready for general use.
2648 * Added man pages for all commands.
2649 * Multiple binary package support.
2650 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2651 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2652 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2654 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2655 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2656 auto-installed as parameters.
2657 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2659 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2662 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2663 the package build directory it is to act on.
2664 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2665 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2666 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2670 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2672 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2673 ready to replace debstd.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400