1 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
5 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
6 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
11 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
14 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
15 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
19 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
22 just skip files that end in -\d+.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
26 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
29 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
33 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
40 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
42 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
43 depend on the build and install targets.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
47 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
50 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
54 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
61 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
67 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
73 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
76 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
77 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
78 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
79 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
80 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
81 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
83 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
84 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
85 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
86 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
87 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
88 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
89 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
93 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
99 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
105 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
108 right place. Closes: #55065
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
112 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
119 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Make all examples rules files executable.
122 * Copyright date updates.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
126 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
129 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
134 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
140 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
147 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
153 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
159 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
165 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
168 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
169 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
170 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
171 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
172 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
173 bits until all files have been registered.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
177 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_installmanpages:
180 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
181 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
182 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
183 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
184 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
185 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
186 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
187 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
188 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
189 otherwise change the result at all.
191 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
192 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
193 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
194 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
195 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
200 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
206 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
209 act on files that don't exist.
210 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
211 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
212 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
214 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
215 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
216 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
217 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
221 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
227 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
233 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
236 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
240 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
243 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
245 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
246 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
247 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
251 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
254 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
255 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
256 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
257 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
258 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
259 does not compress. Closes: #41733
260 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
262 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
264 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
268 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
275 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
281 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
287 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
290 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
294 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
300 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
306 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
309 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
310 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
311 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
312 I made some changes, though:
313 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
314 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
315 that is a clear violation of policy.
316 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
317 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
318 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
319 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
320 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
321 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
322 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
323 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
324 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
326 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
330 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
336 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
339 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
343 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
346 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
347 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
352 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
358 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
365 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
368 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
369 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
370 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
371 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
372 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
373 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
374 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
378 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
384 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
388 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
389 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
393 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
399 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
402 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
406 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
409 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
410 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
414 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
416 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
421 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
425 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
429 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
431 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
432 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
433 for the dependancies to be generated.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
437 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
440 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
444 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
447 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
448 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
449 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
454 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
457 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
458 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
462 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
468 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
474 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
476 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
477 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
481 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
487 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
489 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
490 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
491 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
492 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
493 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
494 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
495 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
496 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
497 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
498 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
499 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
500 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
501 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
507 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
508 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
509 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
511 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
512 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
513 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
514 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
515 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
516 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
518 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
519 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
523 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
526 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
530 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
537 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
539 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
540 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
545 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
548 for building debhelper.
549 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
553 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
560 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Fixed makefile commit target.
563 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
567 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
569 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
570 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
571 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
572 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
573 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
574 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
575 it's always available.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
579 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
582 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
583 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
584 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
588 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
591 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
592 modules. (Closes: #42171)
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
596 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
602 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
605 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
609 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
615 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
618 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
619 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
620 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
624 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
627 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
632 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
635 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
636 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
638 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
639 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
655 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
657 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
658 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
662 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
665 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
666 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
668 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
672 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
675 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
676 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
677 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
681 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
684 things if CDPATH is set.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
688 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
694 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
697 seems to make sense for the transition.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
701 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
704 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
709 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
712 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
713 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
717 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
720 that version. (Closes: #40589)
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
724 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
726 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
727 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
728 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
729 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
730 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
734 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
740 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
743 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
744 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
745 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
746 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
747 * debhelper.1: documented this.
748 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
749 current compatability level is equal to that number.
750 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
751 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
752 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
757 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
759 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
760 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
761 * README: mention doc/v2
762 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
763 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
767 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
769 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
770 be using this script RSN.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
774 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
777 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
778 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
779 more than 1 init script.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
783 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
786 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
790 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Changed perl version detection.
793 * Changed call to find.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
797 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
800 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
802 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
807 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Really include dh_installpam.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
813 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
816 * Wrote man page for same.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
820 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
822 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
823 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
824 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
829 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
836 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
839 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
840 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
841 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
846 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
849 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
850 well. (Closes: 38900)
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
854 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
857 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
858 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
862 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
868 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
875 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
881 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
883 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
884 help from Julian Gilbey.
885 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
886 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
887 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
888 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
889 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
890 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
891 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
896 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
902 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
904 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
909 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
915 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
921 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
924 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
928 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
931 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
935 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
938 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
942 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
948 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
951 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
955 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
957 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
961 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
963 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
967 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
970 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
971 may be deleted. (#35845)
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
975 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Various man page enhancements.
978 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
983 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
986 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
987 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
991 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
994 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
995 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
996 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
998 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
999 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1004 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1010 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Another very minor typo fix.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1016 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Very minor typo fix.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1022 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1025 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1026 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1030 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1036 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1039 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1040 variables properly (#34850).
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1044 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1050 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1053 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1054 (automatically generated by build process).
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1058 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1060 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1064 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1067 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1068 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1070 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1074 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1077 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1081 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * README: minor typo fix.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1087 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1090 leave it at that. :-)
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1094 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1100 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1106 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1109 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1110 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1111 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1115 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1118 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1122 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1125 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1129 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1132 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1133 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1134 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1135 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1139 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1142 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1143 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1144 Craig Small for spotting this.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1148 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1151 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1152 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1156 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1162 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1165 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1169 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1171 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1172 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1173 working on the last version of debhelper.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1177 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1180 being made. (#23255)
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1184 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1190 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1193 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1197 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1200 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1201 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1202 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1203 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1207 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1210 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1211 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1212 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1213 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1215 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1216 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1218 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1223 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1229 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1235 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1238 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1239 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1240 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1241 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1242 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1243 suidregister actually supports it.
1244 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1245 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1249 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1256 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1259 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1260 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1261 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1262 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1263 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1264 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1265 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1269 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1271 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1272 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1276 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1279 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1280 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1281 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1282 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1286 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1289 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1291 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1292 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1293 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1294 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1295 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1296 effect, either. (#30118)
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1300 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1306 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1309 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1310 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1314 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1320 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1323 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1324 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1325 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1326 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1330 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1333 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1334 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1338 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1344 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1347 packages, painlessly.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1351 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1357 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1363 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1369 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * The perl conversion is complete.
1373 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1375 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1376 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1377 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1382 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1385 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1386 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1387 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1391 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1394 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1396 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1398 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1399 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1403 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1406 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1407 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1411 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1417 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1420 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1421 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1422 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1423 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1424 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1428 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1431 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1432 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1433 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1434 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1438 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1441 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1445 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1448 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1449 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1450 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1451 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1452 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1453 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1454 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1455 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1459 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1465 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1468 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1469 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1470 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1475 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1478 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1482 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1485 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1489 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1492 sections of shared libraries.
1493 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1494 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1495 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1496 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1497 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1498 things you don't want them to.
1499 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1500 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1504 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1507 shared libraries. (#26414)
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1511 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1513 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1514 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1515 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1516 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1520 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1524 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1526 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1527 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1528 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1529 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1530 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1534 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1537 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1541 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1544 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1545 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1550 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1553 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1557 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1560 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1561 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1562 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1563 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1564 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1566 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1567 remove debian/files properly.
1568 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1569 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1570 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1571 * Removed bogus menu file.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1575 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1578 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1582 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1585 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1586 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1587 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1588 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1589 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1590 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1594 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1597 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1598 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1599 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1600 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1604 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1611 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1614 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1615 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1617 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1618 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1619 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1620 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1621 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1622 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1626 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1629 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1630 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1631 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1632 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1633 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1634 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1635 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1636 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1637 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1638 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1639 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1640 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1641 passed any switches.
1642 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1646 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1649 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1650 at all for a long while.
1651 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1652 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1653 large chunks in the process.
1654 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1655 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1656 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1664 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1666 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1671 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1674 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1675 that don't always have the same files in them.
1676 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1677 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1678 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1682 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1686 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1687 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1688 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1689 updating 27 man pages.
1690 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1691 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1692 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1693 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1694 programs act on. (#25247)
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1698 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1702 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1703 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1704 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1705 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1706 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1707 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1712 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1719 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1726 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1729 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1733 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1739 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1742 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1743 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1744 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1745 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1746 package by accident.
1747 * Is version 1.0 next?
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1751 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1754 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1755 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1759 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1762 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1763 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1764 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1765 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1766 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1768 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1773 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1776 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1777 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1781 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1784 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1788 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1791 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1792 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1797 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1803 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1806 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1807 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1812 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1818 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1821 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1822 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1823 past week. Thanks, guys!
1825 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1826 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1827 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1828 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1829 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1830 would do in the same situation.
1831 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1832 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1834 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1836 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1837 permissions changed.
1838 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1839 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1840 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1841 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1842 files are treated identically.
1843 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1844 * Minor man page fixes.
1845 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1846 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1847 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1851 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1854 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1855 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1856 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1857 use -X multiple times, too.
1858 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1859 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1863 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1866 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1867 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1871 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1874 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1878 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1881 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1882 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1883 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1884 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1885 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1886 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1887 shape if you're starting a new package.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1891 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1894 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1898 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1901 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1902 because of missing symlinks.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1906 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1912 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1915 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1916 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1917 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1918 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1919 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1921 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1922 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1926 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1928 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1929 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1930 to be changed after the fact :-)
1931 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1935 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1938 no version string after the -V.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1942 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1944 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1945 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1950 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1953 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1957 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1960 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1961 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1962 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1963 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1964 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1965 I always welcome corrections!
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1969 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1975 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1978 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1979 * Documented this new switch.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1983 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1986 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1987 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1988 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1989 no packages use the old behavior.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1993 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1996 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1997 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2001 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2004 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2008 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2014 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2017 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2021 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2024 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2025 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2026 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2030 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2036 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2039 into the source package by accident.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2043 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2046 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2047 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2048 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2049 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2050 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2051 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2056 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2060 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2061 inspired to implement some of it.
2062 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2066 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2069 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2073 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2076 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2077 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2081 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2084 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2085 have done.) (#17598)
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2089 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2095 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2101 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2104 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2108 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2111 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2112 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2116 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2119 argument processor in perl.
2120 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2121 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2122 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2123 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2127 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2130 type directories. (#16933)
2131 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2132 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2133 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2134 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2135 are supported. (#16935)
2136 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2141 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2144 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2148 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2152 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2153 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2154 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2155 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2156 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2157 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2161 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2164 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2165 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2167 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2168 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2169 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2170 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2171 a given package, or -i or -a.
2172 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2173 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2174 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2175 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2176 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2177 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2178 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2179 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2180 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2182 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2183 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2184 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2188 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2191 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2192 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2197 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2200 does not have a section.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2204 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2207 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2208 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2209 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2213 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Fixed typo #16215.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2219 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2222 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2223 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2224 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2225 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2226 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2231 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2234 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2235 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2236 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2241 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2247 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2253 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2256 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2257 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2258 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2259 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2260 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2261 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2265 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2271 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2274 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2278 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2281 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2282 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2283 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2287 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2290 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2294 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2300 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2303 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2307 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2310 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2314 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2320 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2323 postinst, postrm, etc.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2327 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2333 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2336 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2337 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2338 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2339 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2340 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2344 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2347 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2348 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2352 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2355 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2359 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2362 installing package files into.
2363 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2368 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2372 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2376 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2382 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2385 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2389 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2392 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2393 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2394 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2395 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2399 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2401 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2402 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2403 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2404 multiple binary packages.
2405 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2406 should rebuild them with this version.
2407 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2411 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2414 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2418 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2421 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2425 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2428 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2429 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2430 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2431 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2432 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2433 debian/README.debian.
2434 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2435 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2436 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2437 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2438 in a few situations.)
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2442 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2448 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2454 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2457 * Fixed several man pages.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2461 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2464 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2465 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2469 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2472 is ready for general use.
2473 * Added man pages for all commands.
2474 * Multiple binary package support.
2475 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2476 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2477 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2479 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2480 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2481 auto-installed as parameters.
2482 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2484 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2487 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2488 the package build directory it is to act on.
2489 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2490 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2491 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2495 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2497 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2498 ready to replace debstd.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400