1 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
8 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
11 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
12 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
13 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
14 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
19 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
22 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
23 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
24 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
29 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
32 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
33 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
37 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
40 just skip files that end in -\d+.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
44 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
47 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
51 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
58 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
60 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
61 depend on the build and install targets.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
65 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
68 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
72 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
79 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
85 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
91 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
94 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
95 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
96 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
97 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
98 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
99 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
101 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
102 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
103 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
104 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
105 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
106 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
107 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
111 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
117 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
123 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
126 right place. Closes: #55065
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
130 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
137 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Make all examples rules files executable.
140 * Copyright date updates.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
144 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
147 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
152 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
158 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
165 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
171 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
177 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
183 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
186 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
187 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
188 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
189 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
190 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
191 bits until all files have been registered.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
195 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_installmanpages:
198 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
199 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
200 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
201 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
202 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
203 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
204 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
205 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
206 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
207 otherwise change the result at all.
209 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
210 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
211 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
212 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
213 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
218 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
224 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
227 act on files that don't exist.
228 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
229 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
230 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
232 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
233 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
234 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
235 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
239 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
245 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
251 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
254 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
258 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
261 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
263 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
264 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
265 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
269 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
272 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
273 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
274 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
275 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
276 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
277 does not compress. Closes: #41733
278 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
280 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
282 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
286 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
293 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
299 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
305 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
308 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
312 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
318 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
324 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
327 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
328 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
329 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
330 I made some changes, though:
331 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
332 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
333 that is a clear violation of policy.
334 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
335 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
336 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
337 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
338 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
339 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
340 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
341 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
342 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
344 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
348 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
354 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
357 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
361 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
364 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
365 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
370 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
376 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
383 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
386 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
387 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
388 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
389 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
390 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
391 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
392 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
396 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
402 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
406 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
407 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
411 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
417 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
420 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
424 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
427 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
428 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
432 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
434 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
439 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
443 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
447 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
449 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
450 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
451 for the dependancies to be generated.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
455 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
458 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
462 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
465 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
466 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
467 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
472 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
475 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
476 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
480 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
486 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
492 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
495 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
499 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
507 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
508 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
509 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
510 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
511 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
512 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
513 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
514 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
515 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
516 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
517 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
518 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
519 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
523 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
525 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
526 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
527 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
529 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
530 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
531 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
532 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
533 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
534 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
536 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
537 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
541 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
544 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
548 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
555 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
557 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
558 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
566 for building debhelper.
567 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
571 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
578 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Fixed makefile commit target.
581 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
585 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
588 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
589 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
590 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
591 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
592 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
593 it's always available.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
597 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
600 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
601 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
602 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
606 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
609 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
610 modules. (Closes: #42171)
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
614 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
620 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
623 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
627 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
633 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
636 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
637 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
638 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
642 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
645 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
650 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
653 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
654 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
656 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
657 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
661 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
667 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
673 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
675 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
676 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
680 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
683 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
684 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
686 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
690 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
693 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
694 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
695 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
699 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
702 things if CDPATH is set.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
706 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
712 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
715 seems to make sense for the transition.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
719 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
722 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
727 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
730 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
731 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
735 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
738 that version. (Closes: #40589)
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
742 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
744 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
745 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
746 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
747 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
748 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
752 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
758 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
761 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
762 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
763 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
764 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
765 * debhelper.1: documented this.
766 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
767 current compatability level is equal to that number.
768 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
769 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
770 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
775 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
777 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
778 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
779 * README: mention doc/v2
780 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
781 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
785 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
787 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
788 be using this script RSN.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
792 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
795 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
796 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
797 more than 1 init script.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
801 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
804 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
808 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Changed perl version detection.
811 * Changed call to find.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
815 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
818 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
820 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
825 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Really include dh_installpam.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
831 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
834 * Wrote man page for same.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
838 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
841 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
842 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
847 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
854 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
857 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
858 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
859 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
864 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
867 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
868 well. (Closes: 38900)
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
872 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
875 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
876 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
880 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
886 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
893 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
899 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
901 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
902 help from Julian Gilbey.
903 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
904 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
905 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
906 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
907 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
908 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
909 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
914 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
920 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
922 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
927 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
933 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
939 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
942 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
946 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
949 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
953 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
956 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
960 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
966 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
969 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
973 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
975 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
979 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
981 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
985 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
988 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
989 may be deleted. (#35845)
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
993 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Various man page enhancements.
996 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1001 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1004 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1005 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1009 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1012 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1013 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1014 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1016 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1017 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1022 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1028 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Another very minor typo fix.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1034 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Very minor typo fix.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1040 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1043 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1044 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1048 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1054 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1057 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1058 variables properly (#34850).
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1062 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1068 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1071 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1072 (automatically generated by build process).
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1076 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1078 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1082 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1085 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1086 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1088 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1092 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1095 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1099 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * README: minor typo fix.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1105 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1108 leave it at that. :-)
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1112 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1118 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1124 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1127 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1128 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1129 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1133 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1136 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1140 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1143 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1147 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1150 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1151 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1152 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1153 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1157 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1160 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1161 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1162 Craig Small for spotting this.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1166 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1169 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1170 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1174 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1180 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1183 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1187 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1189 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1190 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1191 working on the last version of debhelper.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1195 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1198 being made. (#23255)
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1202 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1208 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1211 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1215 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1218 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1219 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1220 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1221 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1225 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1228 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1229 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1230 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1231 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1233 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1234 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1236 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1241 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1247 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1253 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1256 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1257 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1258 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1259 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1260 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1261 suidregister actually supports it.
1262 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1263 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1267 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1274 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1277 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1278 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1279 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1280 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1281 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1282 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1283 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1287 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1289 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1290 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1294 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1297 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1298 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1299 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1300 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1304 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1307 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1309 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1310 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1311 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1312 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1313 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1314 effect, either. (#30118)
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1318 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1324 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1327 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1328 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1332 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1338 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1341 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1342 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1343 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1344 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1348 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1351 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1352 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1356 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1362 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1365 packages, painlessly.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1369 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1375 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1381 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1387 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * The perl conversion is complete.
1391 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1393 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1394 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1395 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1400 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1403 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1404 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1405 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1409 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1412 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1414 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1416 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1417 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1421 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1424 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1425 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1429 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1435 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1438 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1439 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1440 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1441 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1442 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1446 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1449 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1450 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1451 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1452 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1456 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1459 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1463 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1466 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1467 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1468 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1469 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1470 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1471 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1472 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1473 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1477 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1483 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1486 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1487 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1488 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1493 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1496 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1500 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1503 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1507 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1510 sections of shared libraries.
1511 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1512 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1513 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1514 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1515 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1516 things you don't want them to.
1517 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1518 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1522 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1525 shared libraries. (#26414)
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1529 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1531 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1532 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1533 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1534 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1538 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1542 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1544 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1545 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1546 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1547 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1548 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1552 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1555 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1559 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1562 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1563 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1568 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1571 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1575 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1578 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1579 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1580 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1581 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1582 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1584 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1585 remove debian/files properly.
1586 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1587 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1588 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1589 * Removed bogus menu file.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1593 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1596 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1600 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1603 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1604 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1605 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1606 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1607 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1608 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1612 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1615 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1616 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1617 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1618 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1622 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1629 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1632 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1633 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1635 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1636 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1637 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1638 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1639 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1640 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1644 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1647 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1648 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1649 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1650 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1651 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1652 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1653 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1654 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1655 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1656 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1657 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1658 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1659 passed any switches.
1660 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1664 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1667 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1668 at all for a long while.
1669 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1670 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1671 large chunks in the process.
1672 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1673 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1674 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1679 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1682 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1684 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1689 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1692 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1693 that don't always have the same files in them.
1694 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1695 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1696 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1700 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1704 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1705 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1706 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1707 updating 27 man pages.
1708 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1709 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1710 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1711 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1712 programs act on. (#25247)
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1716 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1720 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1721 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1722 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1723 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1724 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1725 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1730 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1737 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1744 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1747 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1751 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1757 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1760 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1761 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1762 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1763 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1764 package by accident.
1765 * Is version 1.0 next?
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1769 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1772 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1773 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1777 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1780 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1781 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1782 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1783 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1784 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1786 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1791 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1794 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1795 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1799 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1802 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1806 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1809 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1810 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1815 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1821 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1824 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1825 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1830 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1836 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1839 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1840 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1841 past week. Thanks, guys!
1843 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1844 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1845 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1846 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1847 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1848 would do in the same situation.
1849 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1850 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1852 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1854 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1855 permissions changed.
1856 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1857 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1858 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1859 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1860 files are treated identically.
1861 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1862 * Minor man page fixes.
1863 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1864 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1865 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1869 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1872 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1873 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1874 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1875 use -X multiple times, too.
1876 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1877 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1881 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1884 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1885 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1889 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1892 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1896 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1899 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1900 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1901 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1902 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1903 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1904 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1905 shape if you're starting a new package.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1909 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1912 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1916 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1919 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1920 because of missing symlinks.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1924 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1930 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1933 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1934 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1935 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1936 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1937 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1939 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1940 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1944 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1946 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1947 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1948 to be changed after the fact :-)
1949 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1953 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1956 no version string after the -V.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1960 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1962 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1963 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1968 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1971 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1975 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1978 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1979 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1980 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1981 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1982 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1983 I always welcome corrections!
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1987 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1993 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1996 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1997 * Documented this new switch.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2001 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2004 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2005 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2006 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2007 no packages use the old behavior.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2011 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2014 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2015 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2019 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2022 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2026 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2032 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2035 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2039 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2042 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2043 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2044 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2048 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2054 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2057 into the source package by accident.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2061 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2064 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2065 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2066 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2067 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2068 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2069 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2074 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2078 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2079 inspired to implement some of it.
2080 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2084 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2087 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2091 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2094 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2095 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2099 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2102 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2103 have done.) (#17598)
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2107 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2113 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2119 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2122 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2126 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2129 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2130 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2134 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2137 argument processor in perl.
2138 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2139 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2140 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2141 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2145 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2148 type directories. (#16933)
2149 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2150 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2151 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2152 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2153 are supported. (#16935)
2154 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2159 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2162 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2166 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2170 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2171 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2172 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2173 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2174 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2175 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2179 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2182 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2183 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2185 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2186 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2187 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2188 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2189 a given package, or -i or -a.
2190 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2191 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2192 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2193 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2194 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2195 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2196 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2197 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2198 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2200 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2201 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2202 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2206 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2209 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2210 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2215 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2218 does not have a section.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2222 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2225 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2226 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2227 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2231 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Fixed typo #16215.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2237 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2240 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2241 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2242 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2243 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2244 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2249 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2252 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2253 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2254 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2259 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2265 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2271 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2274 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2275 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2276 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2277 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2278 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2279 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2283 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2289 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2292 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2296 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2299 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2300 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2301 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2305 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2308 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2312 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2318 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2321 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2325 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2328 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2332 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2338 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2341 postinst, postrm, etc.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2345 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2351 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2354 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2355 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2356 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2357 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2358 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2362 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2365 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2366 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2370 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2373 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2377 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2380 installing package files into.
2381 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2386 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2390 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2394 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2400 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2403 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2407 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2410 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2411 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2412 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2413 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2417 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2419 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2420 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2421 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2422 multiple binary packages.
2423 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2424 should rebuild them with this version.
2425 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2429 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2432 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2436 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2439 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2443 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2446 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2447 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2448 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2449 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2450 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2451 debian/README.debian.
2452 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2453 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2454 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2455 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2456 in a few situations.)
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2460 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2466 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2472 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2475 * Fixed several man pages.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2479 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2482 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2483 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2487 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2490 is ready for general use.
2491 * Added man pages for all commands.
2492 * Multiple binary package support.
2493 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2494 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2495 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2497 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2498 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2499 auto-installed as parameters.
2500 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2502 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2505 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2506 the package build directory it is to act on.
2507 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2508 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2509 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2513 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2515 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2516 ready to replace debstd.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400