1 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
8 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
15 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
18 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
19 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
20 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
25 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
32 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
38 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
40 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
41 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
42 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
43 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
44 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
45 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
46 notice until v2 is complete.
47 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
48 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
49 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
50 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
51 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
52 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
54 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
55 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
56 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
57 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
61 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
67 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
74 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
77 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
81 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
88 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
91 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
92 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
93 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
94 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
99 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
102 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
103 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
104 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
109 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
112 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
113 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
120 just skip files that end in -\d+.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
124 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
127 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
131 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
138 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
140 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
141 depend on the build and install targets.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
145 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
148 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
152 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
159 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
165 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
171 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
174 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
175 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
176 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
177 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
178 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
179 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
181 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
182 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
183 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
184 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
185 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
186 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
187 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
191 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
197 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
203 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
206 right place. Closes: #55065
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
210 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
217 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Make all examples rules files executable.
220 * Copyright date updates.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
224 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
227 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
232 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
238 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
245 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
251 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
257 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
263 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
266 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
267 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
268 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
269 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
270 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
271 bits until all files have been registered.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
275 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_installmanpages:
278 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
279 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
280 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
281 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
282 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
283 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
284 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
285 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
286 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
287 otherwise change the result at all.
289 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
290 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
291 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
292 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
293 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
298 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
304 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
307 act on files that don't exist.
308 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
309 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
310 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
312 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
313 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
314 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
315 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
319 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
325 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
331 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
334 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
338 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
341 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
343 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
344 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
345 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
349 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
352 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
353 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
354 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
355 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
356 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
357 does not compress. Closes: #41733
358 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
360 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
362 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
366 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
373 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
379 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
385 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
388 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
392 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
398 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
404 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
407 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
408 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
409 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
410 I made some changes, though:
411 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
412 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
413 that is a clear violation of policy.
414 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
415 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
416 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
417 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
418 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
419 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
420 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
421 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
422 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
424 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
428 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
434 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
437 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
441 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
444 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
445 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
450 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
456 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
463 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
466 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
467 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
468 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
469 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
470 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
471 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
472 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
476 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
482 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
486 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
487 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
497 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
500 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
504 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
507 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
508 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
512 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
514 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
519 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
523 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
527 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
529 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
530 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
531 for the dependancies to be generated.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
535 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
538 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
542 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
545 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
546 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
547 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
552 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
555 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
556 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
560 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
566 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
572 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
575 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
579 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
585 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
587 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
588 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
589 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
590 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
591 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
592 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
593 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
594 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
595 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
596 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
597 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
598 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
599 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
603 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
605 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
606 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
607 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
609 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
610 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
611 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
612 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
613 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
614 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
616 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
617 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
621 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
624 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
628 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
635 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
637 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
638 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
646 for building debhelper.
647 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
651 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
658 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Fixed makefile commit target.
661 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
665 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
668 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
669 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
670 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
671 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
672 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
673 it's always available.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
677 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
680 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
681 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
682 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
686 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
689 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
690 modules. (Closes: #42171)
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
694 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
700 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
703 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
707 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
713 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
716 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
717 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
718 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
722 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
725 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
730 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
733 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
734 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
736 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
737 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
741 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
747 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
753 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
755 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
756 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
760 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
763 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
764 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
766 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
770 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
773 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
774 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
775 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
779 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
782 things if CDPATH is set.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
795 seems to make sense for the transition.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
802 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
807 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
810 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
811 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
815 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
818 that version. (Closes: #40589)
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
822 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
824 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
825 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
826 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
827 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
828 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
832 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
841 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
842 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
843 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
844 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
845 * debhelper.1: documented this.
846 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
847 current compatability level is equal to that number.
848 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
849 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
850 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
855 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
857 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
858 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
859 * README: mention doc/v2
860 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
861 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
865 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
867 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
868 be using this script RSN.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
872 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
875 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
876 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
877 more than 1 init script.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
881 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
884 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
888 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Changed perl version detection.
891 * Changed call to find.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
895 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
898 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
900 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
905 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Really include dh_installpam.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
911 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
914 * Wrote man page for same.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
918 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
921 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
922 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
927 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
934 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
937 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
938 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
939 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
944 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
947 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
948 well. (Closes: 38900)
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
952 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
955 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
956 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
960 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
966 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
973 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
979 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
981 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
982 help from Julian Gilbey.
983 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
984 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
985 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
986 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
987 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
988 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
989 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
994 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1000 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1007 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1013 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1019 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1022 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1026 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1029 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1033 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1036 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1040 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1049 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1053 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1059 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1065 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1068 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1069 may be deleted. (#35845)
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1073 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Various man page enhancements.
1076 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1081 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1084 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1085 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1089 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1092 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1093 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1094 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1096 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1097 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1102 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1108 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Another very minor typo fix.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1114 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Very minor typo fix.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1120 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1123 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1124 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1128 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1134 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1137 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1138 variables properly (#34850).
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1142 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1148 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1151 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1152 (automatically generated by build process).
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1156 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1158 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1162 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1165 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1166 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1168 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1172 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1175 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1179 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * README: minor typo fix.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1185 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1188 leave it at that. :-)
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1192 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1198 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1204 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1207 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1208 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1209 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1213 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1216 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1220 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1223 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1227 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1230 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1231 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1232 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1233 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1237 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1240 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1241 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1242 Craig Small for spotting this.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1246 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1249 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1250 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1254 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1260 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1263 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1267 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1269 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1270 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1271 working on the last version of debhelper.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1275 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1278 being made. (#23255)
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1282 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1288 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1291 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1295 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1298 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1299 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1300 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1301 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1305 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1308 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1309 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1310 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1311 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1313 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1314 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1316 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1321 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1327 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1333 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1336 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1337 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1338 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1339 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1340 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1341 suidregister actually supports it.
1342 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1343 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1347 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1354 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1357 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1358 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1359 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1360 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1361 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1362 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1363 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1367 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1369 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1370 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1374 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1377 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1378 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1379 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1380 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1384 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1387 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1389 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1390 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1391 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1392 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1393 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1394 effect, either. (#30118)
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1398 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1404 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1407 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1408 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1412 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1418 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1421 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1422 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1423 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1424 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1428 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1431 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1432 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1436 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1442 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1445 packages, painlessly.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1449 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1455 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1461 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1467 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * The perl conversion is complete.
1471 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1473 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1474 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1475 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1480 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1483 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1484 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1485 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1489 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1492 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1494 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1496 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1497 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1501 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1504 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1505 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1509 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1515 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1518 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1519 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1520 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1521 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1522 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1526 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1529 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1530 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1531 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1532 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1536 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1539 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1543 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1546 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1547 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1548 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1549 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1550 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1551 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1552 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1553 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1557 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1563 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1566 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1567 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1568 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1576 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1580 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1583 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1587 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1590 sections of shared libraries.
1591 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1592 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1593 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1594 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1595 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1596 things you don't want them to.
1597 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1598 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1602 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1605 shared libraries. (#26414)
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1609 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1611 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1612 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1613 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1614 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1618 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1622 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1624 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1625 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1626 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1627 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1628 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1632 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1635 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1639 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1642 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1643 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1648 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1651 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1655 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1658 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1659 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1660 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1661 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1662 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1664 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1665 remove debian/files properly.
1666 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1667 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1668 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1669 * Removed bogus menu file.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1673 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1676 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1680 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1683 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1684 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1685 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1686 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1687 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1688 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1692 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1695 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1696 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1697 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1698 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1702 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1709 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1712 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1713 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1715 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1716 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1717 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1718 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1719 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1720 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1724 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1727 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1728 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1729 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1730 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1731 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1732 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1733 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1734 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1735 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1736 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1737 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1738 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1739 passed any switches.
1740 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1744 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1747 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1748 at all for a long while.
1749 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1750 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1751 large chunks in the process.
1752 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1753 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1754 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1759 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1762 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1764 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1769 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1772 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1773 that don't always have the same files in them.
1774 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1775 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1776 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1780 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1784 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1785 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1786 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1787 updating 27 man pages.
1788 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1789 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1790 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1791 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1792 programs act on. (#25247)
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1796 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1800 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1801 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1802 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1803 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1804 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1805 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1810 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1817 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1824 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1827 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1831 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1837 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1840 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1841 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1842 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1843 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1844 package by accident.
1845 * Is version 1.0 next?
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1849 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1852 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1853 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1857 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1860 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1861 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1862 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1863 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1864 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1866 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1871 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1874 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1875 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1879 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1882 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1886 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1889 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1890 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1895 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1901 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1904 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1905 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1910 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1916 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1919 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1920 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1921 past week. Thanks, guys!
1923 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1924 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1925 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1926 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1927 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1928 would do in the same situation.
1929 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1930 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1932 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1934 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1935 permissions changed.
1936 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1937 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1938 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1939 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1940 files are treated identically.
1941 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1942 * Minor man page fixes.
1943 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1944 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1945 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1949 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1952 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1953 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1954 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1955 use -X multiple times, too.
1956 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1957 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1961 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1964 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1965 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1969 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1972 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1976 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1979 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1980 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1981 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1982 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1983 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1984 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1985 shape if you're starting a new package.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1989 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1992 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1996 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1999 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2000 because of missing symlinks.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2004 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2010 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2013 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2014 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2015 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2016 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2017 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2019 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2020 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2024 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2026 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2027 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2028 to be changed after the fact :-)
2029 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2033 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2036 no version string after the -V.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2040 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2042 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2043 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2048 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2051 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2055 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2058 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2059 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2060 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2061 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2062 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2063 I always welcome corrections!
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2067 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2073 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2076 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2077 * Documented this new switch.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2081 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2084 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2085 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2086 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2087 no packages use the old behavior.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2091 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2094 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2095 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2099 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2102 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2106 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2112 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2115 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2119 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2122 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2123 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2124 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2128 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2134 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2137 into the source package by accident.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2141 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2144 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2145 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2146 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2147 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2148 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2149 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2154 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2158 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2159 inspired to implement some of it.
2160 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2164 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2167 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2171 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2174 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2175 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2179 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2182 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2183 have done.) (#17598)
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2187 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2193 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2199 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2202 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2206 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2209 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2210 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2214 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2217 argument processor in perl.
2218 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2219 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2220 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2221 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2225 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2228 type directories. (#16933)
2229 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2230 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2231 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2232 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2233 are supported. (#16935)
2234 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2239 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2242 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2246 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2250 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2251 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2252 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2253 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2254 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2255 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2259 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2262 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2263 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2265 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2266 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2267 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2268 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2269 a given package, or -i or -a.
2270 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2271 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2272 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2273 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2274 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2275 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2276 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2277 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2278 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2280 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2281 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2282 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2286 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2289 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2290 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2295 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2298 does not have a section.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2302 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2305 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2306 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2307 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2311 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Fixed typo #16215.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2317 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2320 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2321 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2322 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2323 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2324 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2329 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2332 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2333 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2334 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2339 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2345 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2351 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2354 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2355 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2356 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2357 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2358 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2359 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2363 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2369 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2372 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2376 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2379 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2380 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2381 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2385 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2388 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2392 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2398 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2401 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2405 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2408 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2412 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2418 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2421 postinst, postrm, etc.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2425 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2431 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2434 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2435 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2436 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2437 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2438 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2442 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2445 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2446 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2450 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2453 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2457 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2460 installing package files into.
2461 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2466 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2470 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2474 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2480 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2483 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2487 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2490 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2491 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2492 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2493 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2497 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2499 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2500 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2501 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2502 multiple binary packages.
2503 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2504 should rebuild them with this version.
2505 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2509 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2512 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2516 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2519 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2523 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2526 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2527 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2528 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2529 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2530 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2531 debian/README.debian.
2532 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2533 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2534 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2535 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2536 in a few situations.)
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2540 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2546 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2552 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2555 * Fixed several man pages.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2559 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2562 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2563 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2567 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2570 is ready for general use.
2571 * Added man pages for all commands.
2572 * Multiple binary package support.
2573 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2574 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2575 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2577 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2578 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2579 auto-installed as parameters.
2580 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2582 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2585 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2586 the package build directory it is to act on.
2587 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2588 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2589 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2593 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2595 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2596 ready to replace debstd.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400