1 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
6 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
7 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
8 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
9 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
10 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
14 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
20 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
24 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
25 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
29 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
35 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
38 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
42 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
45 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
46 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
50 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
52 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
57 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
61 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
65 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
67 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
68 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
69 for the dependancies to be generated.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
73 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
76 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
83 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
84 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
85 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
90 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
93 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
94 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
98 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
104 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
110 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
113 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
123 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
125 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
126 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
127 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
128 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
129 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
130 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
131 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
132 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
133 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
134 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
135 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
136 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
137 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
141 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
143 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
144 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
145 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
147 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
148 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
149 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
150 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
151 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
152 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
154 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
155 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
159 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
162 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
166 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
173 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
175 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
176 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
181 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
184 for building debhelper.
185 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
189 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Fixed makefile commit target.
199 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
203 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
206 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
207 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
208 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
209 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
210 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
211 it's always available.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
218 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
219 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
220 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
224 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
227 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
228 modules. (Closes: #42171)
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
232 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
238 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
241 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
245 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
251 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
254 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
255 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
256 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
260 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
263 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
268 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
271 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
272 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
274 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
275 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
279 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
285 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
291 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
293 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
294 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
298 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
301 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
302 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
304 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
308 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
311 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
312 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
313 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
317 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
320 things if CDPATH is set.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
324 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
330 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
333 seems to make sense for the transition.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
337 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
340 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
345 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
348 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
349 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
353 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
356 that version. (Closes: #40589)
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
360 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
362 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
363 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
364 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
365 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
366 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
370 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
376 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
379 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
380 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
381 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
382 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
383 * debhelper.1: documented this.
384 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
385 current compatability level is equal to that number.
386 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
387 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
388 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
393 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
395 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
396 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
397 * README: mention doc/v2
398 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
399 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
403 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
405 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
406 be using this script RSN.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
410 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
413 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
414 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
415 more than 1 init script.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
419 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
422 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
426 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Changed perl version detection.
429 * Changed call to find.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
433 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
436 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
438 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
443 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Really include dh_installpam.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
449 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
452 * Wrote man page for same.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
456 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
459 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
460 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
465 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
472 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
475 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
476 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
477 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
482 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
485 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
486 well. (Closes: 38900)
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
490 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
493 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
494 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
498 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
504 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
511 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
517 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
519 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
520 help from Julian Gilbey.
521 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
522 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
523 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
524 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
525 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
526 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
527 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
532 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
538 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
540 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
545 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
551 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
557 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
560 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
564 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
567 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
571 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
574 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
578 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
584 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
587 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
591 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
593 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
597 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
599 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
603 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
606 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
607 may be deleted. (#35845)
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
611 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Various man page enhancements.
614 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
619 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
622 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
623 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
627 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
630 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
631 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
632 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
634 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
635 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
640 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
646 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Another very minor typo fix.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
652 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Very minor typo fix.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
658 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
661 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
662 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
666 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
672 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
674 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
675 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
676 variables properly (#34850).
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
680 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
682 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
686 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
689 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
690 (automatically generated by build process).
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
694 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
696 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
700 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
703 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
704 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
706 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
710 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
713 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
717 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
719 * README: minor typo fix.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
723 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
726 leave it at that. :-)
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
730 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
736 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
742 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
745 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
746 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
747 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
751 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
754 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
758 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
761 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
765 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
768 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
769 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
770 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
771 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
775 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
777 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
778 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
779 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
780 Craig Small for spotting this.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
784 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
787 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
788 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
792 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
798 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
801 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
805 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
807 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
808 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
809 working on the last version of debhelper.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
813 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
820 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
822 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
826 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
829 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
833 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
835 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
836 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
837 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
838 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
839 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
843 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
846 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
847 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
848 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
849 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
851 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
852 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
854 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
859 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
861 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
865 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
871 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
874 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
875 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
876 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
877 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
878 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
879 suidregister actually supports it.
880 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
881 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
885 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
892 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
895 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
896 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
897 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
898 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
899 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
900 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
901 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
905 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
907 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
908 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
912 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
915 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
916 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
917 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
918 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
922 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
925 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
927 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
928 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
929 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
930 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
931 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
932 effect, either. (#30118)
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
936 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
942 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
945 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
946 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
950 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Spelling and typo fixes.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
956 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
958 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
959 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
960 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
961 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
962 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
966 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
969 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
970 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
974 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
976 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
980 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
983 packages, painlessly.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
987 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
993 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
999 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1005 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * The perl conversion is complete.
1009 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1011 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1012 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1013 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1018 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1021 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1022 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1023 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1027 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1030 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1032 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1034 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1035 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1039 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1042 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1043 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1047 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1053 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1056 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1057 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1058 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1059 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1060 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1064 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1067 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1068 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1069 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1070 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1074 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1077 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1081 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1084 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1085 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1086 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1087 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1088 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1089 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1090 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1091 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1095 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1101 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1104 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1105 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1106 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1111 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1114 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1118 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1121 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1125 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1128 sections of shared libraries.
1129 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1130 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1131 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1132 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1133 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1134 things you don't want them to.
1135 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1136 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1140 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1143 shared libraries. (#26414)
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1147 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1149 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1150 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1151 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1152 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1156 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1160 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1162 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1163 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1164 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1165 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1166 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1170 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1173 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1177 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1180 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1181 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1186 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1189 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1193 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1196 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1197 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1198 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1199 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1200 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1202 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1203 remove debian/files properly.
1204 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1205 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1206 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1207 * Removed bogus menu file.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1211 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1214 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1221 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1222 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1223 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1224 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1225 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1226 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1230 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1233 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1234 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1235 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1236 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1240 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1247 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1250 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1251 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1253 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1254 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1255 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1256 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1257 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1258 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1262 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1265 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1266 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1267 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1268 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1269 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1270 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1271 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1272 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1273 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1274 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1275 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1276 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1277 passed any switches.
1278 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1282 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1285 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1286 at all for a long while.
1287 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1288 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1289 large chunks in the process.
1290 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1291 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1292 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1297 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1300 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1302 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1307 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1310 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1311 that don't always have the same files in them.
1312 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1313 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1314 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1318 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1322 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1323 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1324 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1325 updating 27 man pages.
1326 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1327 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1328 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1329 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1330 programs act on. (#25247)
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1334 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1338 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1339 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1340 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1341 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1342 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1343 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1348 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1355 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1362 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1365 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1369 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1375 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1378 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1379 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1380 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1381 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1382 package by accident.
1383 * Is version 1.0 next?
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1387 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1390 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1391 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1395 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1398 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1399 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1400 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1401 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1402 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1404 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1409 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1412 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1413 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1417 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1420 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1424 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1427 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1428 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1433 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1439 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1442 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1443 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1448 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1454 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1457 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1458 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1459 past week. Thanks, guys!
1461 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1462 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1463 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1464 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1465 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1466 would do in the same situation.
1467 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1468 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1470 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1472 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1473 permissions changed.
1474 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1475 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1476 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1477 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1478 files are treated identically.
1479 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1480 * Minor man page fixes.
1481 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1482 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1483 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1487 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1490 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1491 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1492 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1493 use -X multiple times, too.
1494 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1495 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1499 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1502 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1503 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1507 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1510 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1514 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1517 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1518 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1519 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1520 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1521 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1522 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1523 shape if you're starting a new package.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1527 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1530 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1534 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1537 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1538 because of missing symlinks.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1542 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1548 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1551 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1552 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1553 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1554 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1555 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1557 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1558 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1562 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1564 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1565 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1566 to be changed after the fact :-)
1567 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1571 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1574 no version string after the -V.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1578 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1580 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1581 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1586 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1589 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1593 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1596 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1597 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1598 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1599 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1600 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1601 I always welcome corrections!
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1605 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1611 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1614 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1615 * Documented this new switch.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1619 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1622 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1623 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1624 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1625 no packages use the old behavior.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1629 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1632 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1633 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1637 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1640 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1644 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1650 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1653 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1657 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1660 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1661 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1662 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1666 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1672 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1675 into the source package by accident.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1679 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1682 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1683 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1684 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1685 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1686 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1687 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1692 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1696 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1697 inspired to implement some of it.
1698 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1702 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1705 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1709 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1712 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1713 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1717 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1720 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1721 have done.) (#17598)
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1725 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1731 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1737 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1740 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1744 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1747 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1748 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1752 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1755 argument processor in perl.
1756 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1757 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1758 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1759 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1763 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1766 type directories. (#16933)
1767 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1768 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1769 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1770 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1771 are supported. (#16935)
1772 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1777 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1780 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1784 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1788 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1789 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1790 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1791 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1792 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1793 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1797 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1800 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1801 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1803 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1804 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1805 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1806 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1807 a given package, or -i or -a.
1808 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1809 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1810 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1811 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1812 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1813 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1814 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1815 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1816 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1818 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1819 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1820 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1824 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1827 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1828 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1833 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1836 does not have a section.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1840 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1843 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1844 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1845 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1849 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Fixed typo #16215.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1855 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1858 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1859 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1860 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1861 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1862 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1867 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1870 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1871 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1872 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1877 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1883 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1889 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1892 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1893 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1894 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1895 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1896 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1897 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1901 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1907 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1910 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1914 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1917 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1918 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1919 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1923 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1926 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1930 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1936 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1939 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1943 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1946 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1950 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1956 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1959 postinst, postrm, etc.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1963 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1969 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1972 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1973 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1974 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1975 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1976 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1980 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1983 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1984 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1988 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1991 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1995 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1998 installing package files into.
1999 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2004 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2008 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2012 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2018 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2021 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2025 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2028 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2029 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2030 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2031 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2035 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2037 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2038 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2039 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2040 multiple binary packages.
2041 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2042 should rebuild them with this version.
2043 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2047 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2050 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2054 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2057 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2061 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2064 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2065 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2066 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2067 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2068 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2069 debian/README.debian.
2070 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2071 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2072 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2073 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2074 in a few situations.)
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2078 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2084 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2090 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2093 * Fixed several man pages.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2097 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2100 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2101 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2105 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2108 is ready for general use.
2109 * Added man pages for all commands.
2110 * Multiple binary package support.
2111 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2112 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2113 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2115 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2116 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2117 auto-installed as parameters.
2118 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2120 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2123 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2124 the package build directory it is to act on.
2125 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2126 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2127 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2131 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2133 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2134 ready to replace debstd.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400